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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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Carl August Sandburg
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An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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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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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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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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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
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There is no song to your singing.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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