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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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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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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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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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