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Old 05-29-2008, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Qurmudjin View Post
Another problem is, all the people out there who are saying: "If you feed a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime," are not teaching anyone how to fish but are instead too busy buying up all the lakes, rivers and beachfront property, building nets that scoop up entire schools of fish, and selling fishing poles at a 400% markup, while the government assures that you need a license to fish, and must use one of the approved fishing poles, and no sticks with twine and a hook are allowed (for safety reasons: you can starve, but we wouldn't want you to hook your eyeball...).
As the good book says, You can give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. But if you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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