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Be slow to judge, you are looking at different angles

Be slow to judge, you are looking at different angles (Photo: iStock)

My father's late cousin Oloo is credited for crafting an idiom he loved to utter when a bit inebriated: They are all equal and they look alike.

According to him, if it happens to someone else it will be easy for you to discuss it. Meanwhile, if you look clearly, you will find that you are not very different from the person you are talking about. This was my reference point the day I understood Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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