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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

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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Poet
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Galesburg
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Carl August Sandburg
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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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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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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