Carl Sandburg
Quotations
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“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” -Carl Sandburg
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“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.” -Carl Sandburg
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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.” -Carl Sandburg
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“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” -Carl Sandburg
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“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.” -Carl Sandburg
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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” -Carl Sandburg
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” -Carl Sandburg
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“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.” -Carl Sandburg
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“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” -Carl Sandburg
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“All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.” -Carl Sandburg
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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. – Carl Sandburg
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