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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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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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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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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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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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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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