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“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.”

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American poet known for his unique poetic style and profound psychological insight. Robinson's works often explore themes of loneliness, death, and moral dilemmas, characterized by their beautiful language and rich emotions. more

“Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.”

People Firsts Values Change Wealth Property Notion Lawyer Officials Fewer Wet Grain Ownership Clay Public Officials Sumerians Cuneiform

Author:John Perry Barlow

“Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.”

Children Names Simple Tree Dog Six Adults Surprise Delight Christmas Holiday Screws Presentation Forks Christmas Tree Shrimp

Author:Erma Bombeck

“For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.”

Children Memories Adults Christmas Anticipation Children Christmas

Author:Eric Sevareid

“It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

Knows World Whole Stars Sex Acting Known Whole World

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.”

Acting Needed

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.”

Problem Sex Yoga Wellness Money Problem

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.”

World Giving Age Advice Rocks Youth Adults Privilege

Author:Dominique Sutton

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”

People Humans Use Spirit Race Hero Worship Mere Rational Human Race Civilized Barbarism Fetish Philosophic Hero Worship

Book:Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

Source: Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

“The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.”

Humor Today Funny Loss Diets Steady Wet Weight Loss

Book:Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Source: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

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