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Do we need the approval of fools to correct the planet?

Intelligence must play a stronger role in world affairs. The non-aggressive few who can see past the delusions and discuss the world as it is, as well as how it might improve.

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    Colleen Steen 500+

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    Mar 2 2013: Who decides who is the "fool", and who is not? Which "delusions" do we choose to "see past"? Who decides? When you say..."discuss the world as it is".....according to whom?
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      Allan Macdougall 30+

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      Mar 2 2013: Ha! You beat me to it!

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        Colleen Steen 500+

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        Mar 2 2013: LOL...so which one of us is the fool???
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        Colleen Steen 500+

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        Mar 2 2013: You'd make a good politician Allan:>) Now don't tell me I'm foolish.....it is my very own delusion:>)
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        Colleen Steen 500+

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        Mar 2 2013: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
        (Eleanor Roosevelt)

        I know you know that Allan:>)

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