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All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten

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All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

By Robert Fulghum

Conquest

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It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves.

~ Sir Edmond Hilary

The Wisdom of Einstein

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Knowledge:
The Search for the truth and Knowledgeis one of the finest attributes of a man, though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Authority:
To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.

Truth:
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is easy to recognize a falsehood.

Cooperation:
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Wisdom:
Wisdome is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong atempt to acquire it.

Greatness:
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Happiness:
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Fame:
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Life:
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Ageing:
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

Praise:
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Problems:
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

Relativity:
An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.

Goals:
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can barely achieve throught one's greatest efforts.

Racism:
The only remedies against race and prejudice are enlightenment and education. This is a slow and painstaking process.

Solitude:
I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Value:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Imagination:
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing absolute knowledge.

Gandhi

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