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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Matters
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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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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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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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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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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.
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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
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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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If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.
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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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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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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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