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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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