VML-5/18/00

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Why do we see wickedness ? There was a stump of a tree, and in the

dark, a thief came that way and said, " That is a policeman. " A young

man waiting for his beloved saw it and thought that it was his

sweetheart. A child who had been told ghost stories took it for a

ghost and began to shriek. But all the time it was the stump of a

tree. We see the world as we are.

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" My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be ageneral;

if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became

a painter and wound up as Picasso. " - Pablo Picasso