As the man approached the boy, he said to him, "What are you doing?" The little boy replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the water - if I leave them here, when the sun gets hot, they'll dry up and die." The man pointed at all the starfish and said, "But look how many there are; what you're doing can't possibly make a difference." And as the boy picked up yet another starfish and threw it into the ocean, he said, "Well... it makes a difference to this one."
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One day, at dawn, a man was walking on the beach, and in the distance, he saw a figure that looked as if it were dancing. As he got closer, he saw that the beach was littlered with thousands of starfish,and the figure was a little boy, who was picking up the starfish one by one and throwing the into the ocean.