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    Sep 4, 2013, 12:04 PM
    All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (by Robert Fulghum)
    Twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo—a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Here is some of his wisdom:

    1. Share everything.
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    2. Play fair.

    3. Don't hit people.

    4. Put things back where you found them.

    5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
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    6. Don't take things that aren't yours.

    7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.

    8. Wash your hands before you eat.

    9. Flush.

    10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
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    11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

    12. Take a nap every afternoon.

    13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
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    14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

    15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

    16. And then remember the D!ck-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

    Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other's lives. It's that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the mechanic at the local garage, the family doctor, teachers, neighbors, coworkers. Good people who are always “there,” who can be relied upon in small, important ways. People who teach us, bless us, encourage us, support us, uplift us in the dailiness of life. We never tell them. I don't know why, but we don't.


    And, of course, we fill that role ourselves. There are those who depend in us, watch us, learn from us, take from us. And we never know.

    You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who.

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