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All Your Strength

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A young girl and her father were walking  along a forest path.   At some point, they came  across a large tree branch on the ground in  front of them.  The girl asked her father,  “If I try, do you think I could move that branch?” Her father replied, “I am sure you can, if you  use all your strength.” The girl tried her best to  lift or push the branch, but she was not strong  enough and she couldn't move it. She said, with  disappointment, “You were wrong, dad. I can't move it.” “Try again with all your strength,” replied her father. Again, the girl tried hard to push the branch. She struggled but it did not move. “Dad, I cannot do it,”  said the girl. Finally her father said,  “Young lady, I advised you to use 'all your strength'.  You didn’t ask for my help. Our real strength lies not in independence, but in  interdependence. No individual person has all the  strengths, all the resources and all the stamina required  for the complete b