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God, let me remember all good losers.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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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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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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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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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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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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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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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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