The Noise

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Once, many years ago, a Russian woman was awakened by a strange noise in the middle of the night. Nudging her husband, she said in a low voice,

"Wake up, there's a crook in the house."

"All right," replied the man, "so there is a crook in the house. Go back to sleep."

"Don't you understand," she continued, "someone has broken in."

"Keep quiet," her husband hissed. "You know very well we have nothing worth stealing. What should I do, go downstairs and admit it to a total stranger? Have you no shame?"

----------------A Final Thought ...

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U.S. Physicist. The quote comes to me by way of Dave in Newberg, Oregon.