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

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

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.