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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. (Robert Fulghum)
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. View quote
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Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. View quote
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If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible. View quote
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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it. View quote
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride? View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard to explain the cost and consequences of environmental pollution and destruction to a six year old. But we are paying a desperate price even now because adults did not heed the instructions of kindergarten: Clean up your own mess; put things back where you found them; don't take what's not yours. View quote
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From the first day we are told in words we can handle what has come to be prized as the foundation of community and culture. Though the teacher may call these first lessons "simple rules,” they are in fact the distillation of all the hard-won, field-tested working standards of the human enterprise. View quote
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Clean up your own mess. View quote
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. (Robert Fulghum)
Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret. View quote
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. View quote
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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. View quote
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You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. View quote
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On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household. View quote
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Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess. View quote
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My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids. View quote
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'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that. View quote
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The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. View quote
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'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions. (Robert Fulghum)
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there. View quote
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The kindergarten essay got into that underground press we all belong to where something just sort of has a life of its own and moves around and it gets on refrigerators and in the work place and people copy it... I was a minister in the Unitarian church at the time and teaching and I was ready to stop that and do the next phase of my life. So I had quit both those jobs and I was all set up with my studio in Seattle when this other horse came riding by ... I'm not a great writer and I'll never get the Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize but I've won the refrigerator door award. And you don't see Faulkner on people's refrigerator. View quote
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We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it. View quote
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I tend to keep books of art more than anything else now. I'm interested in visual things. And astronomy books. Things you can look at over and over and over again and see something new. ... My notions of God and the universe have always been too small. And limited by language. So now I'm looking at picture books. My children say I'm just beginning to enter my dotage: can't read, just looks at picture books. View quote
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