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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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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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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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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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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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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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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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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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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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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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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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