During the devastating earthquakes in Kobe, Japan, an American newscaster did a short piece on a Japanese woman who set up a makeshift store out of boxes selling flashlights and batteries. When the commentator asked why she wasn’t selling these essential items for more than the regular price, the woman answered, “Why would I want to profit from someone else’s suffering?”

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Thanks to WITandWISDOM(tm) -September 24, 1999 subscribe-wit-wisdom@xc.org

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