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I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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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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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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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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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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Clean up your own mess.
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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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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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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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