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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison they turn to poetry.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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