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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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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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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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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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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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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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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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