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Nothing happens... but first a 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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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
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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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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
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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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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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Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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