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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!

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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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
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Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
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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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Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
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Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.
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I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
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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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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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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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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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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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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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Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
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Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
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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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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
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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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