An army general once had a nine year old son who was quite bright and always asking questions. One evening when the general was busy drawing up plans for war, the son came to him with more new questions. To occupy the child for a while, his father gave him a world map which had been torn into pieces, and asked him to set it right.
Expecting this to take the boy some considerable time, the father was astonished when his son returned in a matter of minutes, the map of the world restored. He asked his son how he had accomplished this so quickly, to which the boy replied, "It was very simple. I found that there was a picture of a person on the other side, and I put his pieces back together." With this, the father realized that when one sets the person right, the world will be all right.
That is a lovely story!
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