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There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Carl Sandburg
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1878 to 1967; Wikidata Q193608, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193608 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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