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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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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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The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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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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The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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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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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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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 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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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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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
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As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
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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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