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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 in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. but, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. so we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

-Robert Fulghum

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If Dandelions Were Rare And Fragile, People

Robert Fulghum

If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. but, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. so we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

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I don't like weeds! my father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when i was a kid. i've hated weeds ever since i was 12 years old. i'll never go in the weeds! i'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. it may increase hate. it is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. this is the ultimate weakness of violence: it multiplies evil and violence in the universe. it doesn’t solve any problems.

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I'm concerned about a better world. i'm concerned about justice; i'm concerned about brotherhood; i'm concerned about truth. and when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. for through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, mr. pain..." "vee-" "knock, knock." "this is really important-" "knock, knock." "it's about elliot-" "knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. i sighed. "who's there?" "boo." "boo who?" "boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" she broke into hysterical laughter.

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