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>>Life is beautiful, don't
>>mess
>>it up...
>>
>>If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town with
>>100
>>people, it would look something like this:
>>
>>57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 Americans (northern and southern) 8 Africans
>>
>>
>>52 women 48 men
>>
>>
>>70 coloured-skins 30 caucasians
>>
>>
>>89 heterosexuals 11 homosexuals
>>
>>
>>6 people would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of them will be
>>from the United States of America
>>80 would have bad living conditions
>>70 would be uneducated
>>50 underfed
>>1 would die
>>2 would be born
>>1 would have a computer
>>1 (only one) will have higher education
>>
>> When you look at the world from this point of view, you can see there
>>is a
>>real need for solidarity, understanding, patience and education.
>>
>>Also think about the following
>>
>>This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are happier than the 1
>>million people that will not survive next week.
>>
>>If you never suffered a war,
>>the loneliness of the jail cell, the agony of torture,
>>or hunger,
>>
>>
>>you are happier than 500 million people in the world.
>>
>>If you can enter into a church (mosque) without fear of jail or death, you
>>are happier than 3 million people in the world.
>>
>>If there is a food in your fridge,
>>you have shoes and clothes,
>>you have bed and a roof,
>>you are richer then 75% of the people in th e world.
>>
>>
>>If you have bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the
>>money-box,
>>you belong to the 8% of the people on the world, who are well-to-do.
>>
>>If you read this you are three times blessed because:
>>
>>1. somebody just thought of you.
>>2. you don't belong to the 200 million people that cannot read.
>>
>>3. and... you have a computer!
>>
>>As somebody once said:
>>
>>"- work as if you don't need money,
>>- love as if you've never been hurt,
>>-dance, as if nobody can see you,
>>- sing, as if no one can hear,
>>- live, as if the Earth was a heaven."
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>"A person should like be a stalk of rice, the more it is loaded with
>>grain,
>>the more it is bowed down"
>>
>>"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your
>>courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
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