American - Poet | January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967
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 it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
GirlEnoughEasyYouHerOff
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