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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Taking
Learning
Chance
Fear
Comes
Chances
Boredom
Blessing

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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
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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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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
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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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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
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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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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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