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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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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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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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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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