| One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. |
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- Robert Fulghum |
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| I have seen the future and it doesn't work. |
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- Robert Fulghum |
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| If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. |
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- Robert Fulghum |
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| Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. |
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- Robert Fulghum |
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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. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. |
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- Robert Fulghum |
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