Carl Sandburg Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
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Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.
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What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
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I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.
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He who would pray, must obey.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
