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Clean up your own mess.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Cleaning
Mess
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The examined life is no picnic.
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Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
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Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
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Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
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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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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
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This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
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If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
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