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on July 23, 2019

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Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'When asked what suprised him most about humanity the Dalai Lama answered, Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never lived'

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