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Modem Butterfly

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Fri Dec-10-04 08:08 PM
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6. No. Why waste the effort?

When my partner's mother got sick, her sister asked us to send some "positive energy" her way. Instead, we got busy actually helping her. "Hands that help are better than lips that pray," as Bertrand Russell said. Had he been alive today, he also might have said, "Helpful thoughts are never equal to helpful deeds,"

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