"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
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"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
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"For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along."
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"By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul."
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"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."
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"To be a good loser is to learn how to win."
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"Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets."
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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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"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."
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"Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you."
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"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."
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"If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell"
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"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
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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."
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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."
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"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."
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"Our lives are like a candle in the wind."
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"Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders."
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"The fog comes on little cat feet."
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