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Carl Sandburg Quotes: Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
         

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.


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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.



It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?



Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.



Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.



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