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A Venezuelan Dictator Once Decided To Stop Leprosy. He Saw That Most Lepers In His Country Were Also Beggars. By The Simple Expedient Of Collecting And Destroying All The Beggars In Venezuela An End Was Put To Leprosy In That Country.

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A Venezuelan Dictator Once Decided To Stop Leprosy. He Saw That Most Lepers In His Country Were Also Beggars. By The Simple Expedient Of Collecting And Destroying All The Beggars In Venezuela An End Was Put To Leprosy In That Country.

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Tolerance Is A Good Cornerstone On Which To Build Human Relationships.

Any Of Us Probably Could Do More Important Things Than We Are Doing. Any Of Us Could Use Some Changes In Our Tasks. But None Of Us - And Still Stay Alive And Sane - Could Do Without Something To Do.

To Salvage A Society, It Is Necessary To Aid, Abet, Raise And Increase That State Of Mind. If You Were To Set Up A Perfect Government Out Here Which Required The Intervention Of Nobody, You Would Have Destroyed The Society. But By Raising The Individual Ability Of The Persons In The Society Within The Framework That They Are Able To View, Raise Their Ability Within The Framework They Are Able To View, You Would Have Achieved A Marked Advance For That Society.

To Be Happy, One Only Must Be Able To Confront, Which Is To Say, Experience, Those Things That Are. Unhappiness Is Only This The Inability To Confront That Which Is.

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