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The people know what the land knows.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
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Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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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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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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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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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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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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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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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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