Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.Carl Sandburg
O prairie mother, I am one of your boys.
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If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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My arms are long,
Long as the reach of time and space.
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