if you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too:
if you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or being hated don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
if you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
if you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
if you can meet with triumph and disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same:.
if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
and stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
if you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings,
and never breathe a word about your loss:
if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the will which says to them: "hold on!"
if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
if all men count with you, but none too much:
if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
and - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!
rudyard kipling
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users' favorite poems
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swastika
main symbol of adolf hitler's nazi party. it is also used in asian religions.
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turkey
its citizens live to make president erdogan, his family, and oligarchs richer.
example:
"according to the world bank's figures, five turkish construction companies, the limak holding, cengiz holding, kolin, kalyon and mng holdings are among the world's top ten tender-winning companies."
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the unexamined life is not worth living.
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alexander hamilton
he is often credited with saving the united states from the huge debt it got into to pay for the revolutionary war.
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apple
apple is the nokia of ai.
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charley horse
another word i learned from my wife is charley horse: a sudden, painful muscle cramp or spasm, usually in the leg or foot. it often happens during exercise or at night and usually goes away on its own after stretching or massaging the muscle.
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beefy's
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tvi
tactical vehicle intervention.
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ez
easy.
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honduras
latin america's deadliest place to be a woman. https://youtu.be/aaWIiAFvZy8
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turkey
(see: #849)