"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-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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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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