“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
“The waterbed trend was similar to the fulfillment movement, in the sense that you paid for something that was supposed to bring you happiness, but you wound up with something less fulfilling, in this case motion sickness and water damage.”
Source: Nonfiction, Dave Barry Turns 50 (1998), p. 142
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