Carl Sandburg Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.
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There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.
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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.
