“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?”

—  Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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