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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
Way
Life
Begun
Changes
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Learned
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Live

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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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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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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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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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A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
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If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.
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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.
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My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
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