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LEARN says Nature Boy. Casey Abrams' version is 80% mesmerizing:

A WORD ON STATISTICS, by Wislawa Szymborska

Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.

Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.

Ready to help,
if it doesn’t take long:
forty-nine.

Always good,
because they cannot be otherwise:
four — well, maybe five.

Able to admire without envy:
eighteen.

Led to error
by youth (which passes):
sixty, plus or minus.

Those not to be messed with:
four-and-forty.

Living in constant fear
of someone or something:
seventy-seven.

Capable of happiness:
twenty-some-odd at most.

Harmless alone,
turning savage in crowds:
more than half, for sure.

Cruel
when forced by circumstances:
it’s better not to know,
not even approximately.

Wise in hindsight:
not many more
than wise in foresight.

Getting nothing out of life except things:
thirty
(though I would like to be wrong).

Balled up in pain
and without a flashlight in the dark:
eighty-three, sooner or later.

Those who are just:
quite a few, thirty-five.

But if it takes effort to understand:
three.

Worthy of empathy:
ninety-nine.

Mortal:
one hundred out of one hundred –
a figure that has never varied yet.

(translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak) 

SourceCaterina.net 

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@jessieay from Twitter responded to this post, "I thought of you this morning was I was walking to work, Adam, because I walked past a piece of cement where someone had written: "peace isn't the destination, peace is the way.""

One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. ~Henry Miller

http://www.facebook.com/adam.rifkin/posts/10150305026465415

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