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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
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I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’.
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Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum
Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.
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My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
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It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
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The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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The examined life is no picnic.
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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
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I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
Robert Fulghum
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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