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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

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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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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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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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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