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Las Cosas importantes las aprendí en el parvulario : breves relatos y pequeñas verdades : reconsiderado, revisado y ampliado con veinticinco nuevos ensayos por Robert Fulghum
Fulghum, a retired Unitarian minister, does not express uncommon thoughts here: his thoughts are those we all wish were true.... Fulghum approaches each topic here with lump-in-the-throat sentimentality, which is sure to feed the public's perceived hunger for happy talk.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Each spring, for many years, I have set myself the task of writing a personal statement of belief: a Credo.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And it still is true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world,it is best to hold hands and stick together. (p. 8)
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts... (p. 20)
But sometimes something slips through the net of prejudice, some small bit of a sign that is so clean and true and real that it wedges open the rusting Iron Curtain long enough for us to see not an enemy but fellow travelers, joined to us by membership in the Fellowship of Joy-and-Pain. (p. 31)
The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. And so it has been to this day. (p. 80)
Well, where do the Mermaids stand? All the "Mermaids" -- all those who are different, who do not fit the norm and who do not accept the available boxes and pigeonholes? (p. 84)
So, in other words, what's behind my bed and bookcase and dresser and chest is mostly me and stardust. (p. 123)
He said, "Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." (p. 130)
But to be human is to know and care and ask. (p. 161)
Or the bliss of just what was-for-a-day when nothing special took place -- life just worked. (p. 179)
Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away! (p. 192)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The next time I will tell you about frogs; Miss Emily Phipps; a sign in a grocery store in Pocatello, Idaho; the most disastrous wedding of all time; a Greek phrase, asbests gelos (unquenchable laughter); the Salvation Navy; the man who knew then what he knows now; the smallest circus in the world; the truth about high school; and the time when the bed was on fire when I lay down on it; and
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