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There is no song to your singing.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Journalist
Musicologist
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Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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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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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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