The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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What Is A Terrorist Sarah Palin?
No a terrorist is “somebody who uses violence,
especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination,
to intimidate others, often for political purposes”.
Julian prints truth, the public, has a right to know?
From proven sources, like journalists, newspapers.
Unlike American intelligence community accurately.
The meaning of terrorism is defined in a dictionary.
As reportedly once a journalist should not Sarah know?
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The definition of terrorist used, was quoted directly from the Encarta Dictionary: English (North America) .
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Alley Rats
They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”
And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guise
Of “mutton chops,” “galways,” “feather dusters.”
Metaphors such as these sprang from their lips while other street cries
Sprang from sparrows finding scattered oats among interstices of the curb.
Ah-hah these metaphors—and Ah-hah these boys—among the police they were known
As the Dirty Dozen and their names took the front pages of newspapers
And two of them croaked on the same day at a “necktie party” … if we employ the metaphors of their lips.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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Judgement Of A Word
Global internet on line
American spelling machine?
When searching online
will flag British judgement
as spelling incorrect
will insist on US judgment
yet is this judgement correct?
Both judgment and judgement
occur with equal frequency set?
One spelling English one American
what a bother when both are correct?
Will you your online dictionary update?
Your own personal ‘judgment call' abridgment?
This choice spelling inconsistencies will assist?
Still wondering why the two spellings resist?
To this question trade English American
politics dark flavours a colonial twist?
War of 1812 sabres parent British patron.
Oxford English Dictionary preferred
judgement a war of words is absurd.
1812 fosters nationalism independent.
Judgement remained form sanctioned
in the Bible in new Revised Version.
Older English spelling recommended.
Shakespeare plays judgment US spelt.
Judgement rules British English text.
Rule is spell consistently either is best.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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