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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.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Novelist
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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