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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Speed
Increase
Quality
Always
Life
Efficiency

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