"What does it profit a man if he……" — Robert Fulghum
"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"
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148 Quotes by Robert Fulghum
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and…
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand…
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I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When…
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To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To…
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of…
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs…
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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form…
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Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the…
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a…
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The…
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More Gains Quotes
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in…
— Chinua Achebe
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,…
— Michele Bachmann
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above…
— Honore de Balzac
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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every…
— Ellen Barkin
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
— Joseph Addison
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