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From Quotes by Carl Sandburg
- Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
- If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers,…
- Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life…
- 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…
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
- 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…
- Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest…
- And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads…
- Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other…
- I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of…
- Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
- 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…
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the…
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