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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Life
Begun
Changes
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
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Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
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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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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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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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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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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
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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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Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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