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Post by Phoenix on Oct 13, 2020 7:50:41 GMT -5
A great king once asked all of his best scholars to compile a history of the human race. After many years of work, the scholars came to him with the results of their work– 500 thick volumes, carried by a caravan of mules. It was the most comprehensive history ever written.
But the king was displeased, and said to the chief scholar, “This is too much; you must condense it.”
The old scholar replied: “Sir, if you desire, all of these volumes can be reduced to a single sentence. With only eight words I can summarize for you the whole history of humanity: They were born, they suffered and they died. That is the story of every person who ever lived, and thus, it tells the story of the entire human race. It is your story and it is my story. We are born, we suffer, and we die.”
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