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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
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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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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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
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Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
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If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.
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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
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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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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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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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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. What do you do?.
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity
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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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