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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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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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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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