One time a group of people came to Abraham Lincoln to discuss something that had been causing some trouble.
Their arguments were not based on facts but on suppositions. After listening for a while, Lincoln asked, “How many legs would a sheep have, if you called its tail a leg?”
“Five” was the reply.
“No,” said Lincoln, “it wouldn’t; it would only have four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”
Our fears, likewise, many a time are based on suppositions and unrealistic assumptions rather than on facts.
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