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I rented from netflix the other day "The Killing Fields" a really good movie that talked about the United States involvment in Cambodia in the 1970's. It was an extremely powerful movie and I seeing it nearly 10 years later since the first time, it was like watching it thru new eyes...
You dont really think about how good we have it here until you visit or are dropped into a third world country. I will leave you with these quotes.
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
-attributed to Joseph Stalin
"There is no proportion between the pity we feel and the extent of the pain by which the pity is aroused: a single Anne Frank excites more emotion than the myriads who suffered as she did but whose image has remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is necessary that it can be so. If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live."
- Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati
(The Drowned and The Saved) translation from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal
You dont really think about how good we have it here until you visit or are dropped into a third world country. I will leave you with these quotes.
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
-attributed to Joseph Stalin
"There is no proportion between the pity we feel and the extent of the pain by which the pity is aroused: a single Anne Frank excites more emotion than the myriads who suffered as she did but whose image has remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is necessary that it can be so. If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live."
- Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati
(The Drowned and The Saved) translation from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal
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