From e2c87d8b848b6eca8eafbf70db9dd5ed330943ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dougb Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:00:46 +0000 Subject: Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through 8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns. --- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'games') diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 8f23c4b..fc66446 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -2565,31 +2565,42 @@ a-comin'." Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills. Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max." % - Most of what 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 sandbox at nursery 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 someone. -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 some every day. - Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for -traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the -little seed in the plastic 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 plastic cup -- they all -die. So do we. - And then remember the book about Dick and Jane 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 sane living. - Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world --- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with -our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other -nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own -messes. 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. + 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 someone. + 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 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. + [...] Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the +whole world -- had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon +and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if all governments +had as a basic policy to always put things 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. -- Robert Fulghum, "All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" % -- cgit v1.1