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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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Robert Lee Fulghum
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