Quote by Carl Sandburg
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doome

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. – 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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Poetry
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. – Carl Sandburg

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Math
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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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Time
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With engineering, I view this years failure as next years opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. – Gordon Moore

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Failure

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Failure

So nevertheless, what Im saying is that what one is – ones parameters are constantly narrowed by ones success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. – Jeremy Irons

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Failure

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. – Hideki Tojo

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Failure

Random Quotes

Ive never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but Im looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility. – Don Johnson

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relationship

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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History

Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfathers house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow. – Lydia Maria Child

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Literary

Theres nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. – Tupac Shakur

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Business