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Nice said

I got some chocolates with sayings inside their papers. One is very nice or maybe very self appropriate:  Il faut deux ans pour apprender à parler et toute une vie pour apprender à se taire.   In English, but rather literally (maybe less nice): It takes 2 years to learn and speak and a whole life to learn and shut up.

Finally, my greatest concern confirmed and nicely summarized.

I believe that a lot of poor countries have a lot to do with poor (selfish) politics. While looking for a job to help people, I finally came across a statement that expresses one of my deepest feelings, coming from a philosophy that for anyone to deserve happiness in this world, one should help in letting the whole world having the same chances first. Only then, the next steps can be taken. I would even exagerate and say that the more one does for the poorer, and the more poor the latter, the more that one should merit happiness. And I am not talking about results, but about the effort one makes in it. (e.g. One can't possibly think that a billionaire offering 0.001 % of his wealth for such a cause and in that way and budget helping more people, has done anything more than one that himself almost has nothing and offering 50% . Though the first might have more results and helped more people, I find that the latter disserves the most credit!) Anyway, babbling about again. That se