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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.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Power
Matter
Mind
Inadequate
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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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I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’.
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