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Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.Robert Fulghum
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Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.Robert Fulghum
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.Robert Fulghum
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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.Robert Fulghum
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.Robert Fulghum
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I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy. .Robert Fulghum
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Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.Robert Fulghum
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Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.Robert Fulghum
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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.Robert Fulghum
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Don't Believe Everything You Think!Robert Fulghum
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And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?Robert Fulghum
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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.Robert Fulghum
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The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE.Robert Fulghum
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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!Robert Fulghum
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.Robert Fulghum