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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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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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