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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 all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath 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

Submitted Comments (270)

Henrico Medal of Honor winner, 90, ordered to remove flagpole | Richmond Times-Dispatch »

• Jesus Jumpin Christ, since when is the American flag not "aesthetic"?
  
  And to deny an old man his flag? Shame on these jerks!

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Obama Denies that Afghanistan is Another Vietnam »

• Meanwhile, he mentioned Vietnam in his speech 4 times. Don't Democrats know any other conflict than the one they lost?

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Judge Rejects RNC Bid To End Minority Voter Protections »

• Presumably having Black Panther members at polling booths with bats is still OK.
  
  I can't wait for the 2010 elections, when asking for someone ...

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Obama Speech Leaves Out How to Grow the Afghan Army - Yahoo! News »

• The military did not agree to the criteria above. And, yes, it's 40M, and still not enough.
  
  And this argument is pointless: we've declared ...

  17 hours, 27 minutes ago 10 replies View »

• Victory is not an objective. This is all about Obama - getting political points for "doing something" for the centrists, pulling out for the leftists, ...

  18 hours, 22 minutes ago 2 replies View »

• Except that you cannot both fight the Taliban and train the Afghan army simultaneously. With only 30M soldiers, you can either fight or train, but ...

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NIH authorizes use of first human embryonic stem cells under new policy - washingtonpost.com »

• Technologically speaking, embryonic stem cell research has been going on for a while. Up to this administration, it was not Federally funded.
  
  The real ...

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Baltimore mayor guilty of using city gift cards for herself »

• Let's play "Guess The Political Party"! Where, o where, is the D behind her name? Nary a mention of it, because she's not a Republican.
  

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Obama to Terrorists: You Win In 2011 - FOXNews.com »

• They don't live in caves. They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground. They do congregate in cities, which have ...

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• Meso, we will transition power to the terrorists, precisely becuase we did not do all we could. The Afghani people will go back to female ...

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• Jasper, I was in Iraq in 1991. I personally helped destroy dozens of terrorist camps. It is pretty widely known that Saddam Hussein rented out ...

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• Gunny, he will get out before the next presidential election to keep his base on his side. The timing is curiously close to his campaign ...

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• Leaving means failure, not winning.

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Howard Dean: We Will Have Both Socialism And Capitalism »

• I asked the question, precisely because I've lived in England, Germany, France, Italy and Ireland. And I know the answer; you?

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Al Gore Charging $1200 For A Handshake And A Picture »

• Ad hominem attacks about Bush, who isn't even part of this article, won't distract from the main point: Gore is a shill and a prostitute ...

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• I think he's a decent guy at his core. He simply is looking to comfort a bruised ego over not winning the presidency, and is ...

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Setting up our military to fail »

• This was never, ever, a military decision. This was a political calculation based on managing the middle of the political spectrum by deploying troops so ...

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Another Global Warming Data Problem??? »

• The hits just keep on comin' for the Global Warming cabal.

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Federal Pay Raise | FactCheck.org »

• This is asking the wrong question: Are we adding to Federal and State payrolls? Yes, and in large numbers. This add more to taxpayer burden ...

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Obama Aunt "Devastated" by Estrangement »

• The law is clear, and it should be followed. That means her deportation, and a reduction in taxes paying for her to be here.

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Government as farce / $7.4 billion debt in state jobless fund is telling »

• This is what the future looks like. Michigan is about a year behind, and Illinois and Ohio are not far behind that.

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Manufacturing in U.S. Expands for Fourth Month (Update1) - Bloomberg.com »

• Gunny, I have three manufacturing plants that I coordinate. Two of them are running their best efficiency ever, thanks to their managers using the downturn ...

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