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Quote by Carl Sandburg
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may

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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We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry
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Carl Sandburg
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – 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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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. Its called competition. And competition is antagonism. – Edward Bond

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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. – Serj Tankian

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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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Sometimes Ive been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. – Marilyn Monroe

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I think as an American society, when were paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we dont want to see sad things at the movies. – Zoe Saldana

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