We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Harvard College Day 2007

Posted by SimJapan2005 on Friday June 08, 2007 @10:11AM
from the news.harvard.edu dept.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.07/99-clinton.html

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Re:We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Har... by pg on Friday June 08, 2007 @11:07AM (#26898)

But are all genes equal? Humans and chimps are 98.5% similar, but whatever's in that 1.5% seems to make a big difference.

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Re:We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Har... by SimJapan2005 on Friday June 08, 2007 @12:24PM (#26913)

Hi Paul, exactly his message --- even comparison with just humans --- we are just different 1/10 of 1% --- and almost all us tend to focus on that difference. He, mentioning we somehow forgetting about purpose over power.

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Re:We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Har... by SimJapan2005 on Friday June 08, 2007 @01:00PM (#26918)

Bill just wanted to relay that in a much as we should enjoy our differences --- we should be beginning to put forth more value to our common humanity. It's fastly becoming a very small interdependent world and high time to care much more.

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Re:We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Har... by create_account on Friday June 08, 2007 @12:59PM (#26917)

Hey, this is supposed to be startup news... once the political stuff creeps in here it'll be just like reddit (and I don't mean that in a good way).

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Re:We Are 99.9% Not Different - Bill Clinton's Remark at Har... by SimJapan2005 on Friday June 08, 2007 @01:07PM (#26920)

hi. no political intention meant. just thought something that's intrinsic part of our humanity. please read content and maybe you'll agree. thanks.

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