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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
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About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
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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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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 gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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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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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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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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Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.
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