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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
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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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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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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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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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