"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.“
-Carl Sandburg
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