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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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There is no song to your singing.
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.
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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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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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Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
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