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  • The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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    Integrity   Competition   Intelligence  
    Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

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    War   Years   Two  
    "Grass" l. 7 (1918)

  • The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

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    Ducks   Competition   Grease  

  • Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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    Peace   War   Giving  
    The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.
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Carl Sandburg

  • Born: January 6, 1878
  • Died: July 22, 1967
  • Occupation: Writer
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