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Carl Sandburg

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Carl Sandburg

Society

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Carl Sandburg is saying that a society fails when its people stop remembering their origins and the values or experiences that shaped them. Losing this connection causes them to lose direction and ultimately leads to their decline.

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