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The examined life is no picnic.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Picnic
Picnics
Examined
Life

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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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Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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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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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Clean up your own mess.
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. What do you do?.
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
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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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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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About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
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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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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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