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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Sunday
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Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
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The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
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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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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
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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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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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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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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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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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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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The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
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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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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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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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