What of the Wright boys in ...

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need.
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 Carl Sandburg

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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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 Carl Sandburg
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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 Carl Sandburg
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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 Carl Sandburg
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.
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 Carl Sandburg