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Robert Pinsky
Stanford University, 1999
The two great requirements of the human animal … namely, caring for the young ones and honoring the wisdom of the old ones, including the ways and wisdom of the dead.
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Stanford University, 1999
The two great requirements of the human animal … namely, caring for the young ones and honoring the wisdom of the old ones, including the ways and wisdom of the dead.