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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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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 have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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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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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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