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Show words to live by Mr. jonn W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, writing in The Reader's Digest, asks, "Suppose that you could offer one word of advice to a young person living in the year 2000. One word! What would it be?" Mr. Gardner has posed this question to many friends over the past several years. He found the most frequently mentioned word was "Live". Live ranked among the three words most often mentioned for first place. The other two words were "Love" and "Learn". After these first three words, Mr. Gardner found that agreement breaks down for choice of a fourth, a fifth and so on. However, after much searching and meditating, he arrived at what he calls, "Seven Words to Live By". He placed them in the following order: "Live, love, learn, think, give, laugh, try." As a final observation he asked: "Can you pack better advice into seven words?" |