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To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ↗

— 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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Nothing happens unless first we dream. ↗

— 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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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— 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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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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