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If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
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An old Apache storyteller reminds us
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