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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
Biographer
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Journalist
Musicologist
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Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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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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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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