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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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