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"Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality."
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Source: Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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