Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...Anonymous
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Is there a telling difference between the two monkeys? Well, I guess you’re either one or the other. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey. If you feed one, it will be satisfied with such things as stones and twigs.
Another time, it will be satisfied with scraps of meat. Yet another time with human flesh. The hyena is not fussy about what it eats.
It just wants to eat something that is gone immediately, so that it can get on with its life of scavenging. The monkey, on the other hand, will never stop working to improve itself. It will never be content unless it is continually improving its own skills...
Source: Dictionary Of The Khazars
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