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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
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Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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There is no song to your singing.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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