Other - Society & Culture - 20 August 2006

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 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!


--Rudyard Kipling

2006-08-20 19:06:41 · 3 answers · asked by 44 years old 2

If Kuran says not to sing 'Vande mataram' then why?

2006-08-20 18:58:50 · 3 answers · asked by gym1_ahd 2

Looks like I will only be returning with a handful of people.

2006-08-20 18:51:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

and she wants to find out about her ancestors. Both of her parents are deceased. She needs info for a health reason. Please help?

2006-08-20 18:41:58 · 8 answers · asked by Carol H 5

You can't say " superman " or " batman " it has to be something specific. Like: Heat Vision, or Levitation etc.

2006-08-20 18:40:06 · 20 answers · asked by helpWanteD 2

I think this is great because I suffer from insommnia, but now have to go to work. What a thought on a Monday. Anyone feel the same?

2006-08-20 18:39:18 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every other race and religion has suffered. I know the former slaves weren't given what they were promised back then. But that's not our fault, meaning the people who live in the United States today.

2006-08-20 18:37:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am Italian and when some people hear that I am they say ut oh...she is a "hot head". I know some of it is done in fun, also.

2006-08-20 18:32:11 · 10 answers · asked by ItalianRose29 4

Those of you that are born within these last 25 years, how does this deadly Virus affect your life?


Is it possilbe for us to live as carefree as the Baby Boomers? or our Grandparents? Why or why not? By carefree I mean Sexually.

Serious answers only please!

Thanks

2006-08-20 18:27:47 · 13 answers · asked by GoldenLocs 3

2006-08-20 18:26:58 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 18:26:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

okay heres the deal - my parents want to move to australia (i live in new zealand) and its totally gay and they no how much i dont want to go but still want to move because they think it's now or never. it would be perfect cuz ma bros just finishing high school and im just starting year 11 and they know that they cant move when my bro starts uni or when i start senior years cuz it would screw everything up for us. that means that they have this month and 5 more months after that to pack up, sell the house, sell dads buisness (small surgery) and then get there and find a house start jobs and find a uni and school for us. but i really dont want to go so what can i do to slow down the process becuase they dont have a lot of time to do it and so far my dad has been going to lots of meetings with people in hope of selling his buissness off at a reasonably low price, its practically a race any tips???!!!!

2006-08-20 18:22:49 · 19 answers · asked by ~*.::. sAy--wAatT.:.*~ 2

why is it that people ask me stupid questions about being gay that act as if they have never met some one gay i go to an art school its pretty common as it is in any normal school so why do they asy

2006-08-20 18:20:33 · 12 answers · asked by becca 1

2006-08-20 18:18:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 18:16:24 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you agree?

2006-08-20 18:15:36 · 4 answers · asked by Apple Pie 2

Why or why not?

2006-08-20 18:04:33 · 8 answers · asked by Milk Maid 2

2006-08-20 18:00:20 · 8 answers · asked by aloev66 1

This lady from a different department knows when we have potlucks. she always shows up, grabs tons of food and doesn't even say thanks. We told her it was only for people who contribute, and she went away and brought back an opened bottle of flat diet soda. She said that was her contribution and grabbed a bunch of pizza. Nobody even drinks diet soda here. How can I get this woman---politely---to stop mooching off of us?

2006-08-20 18:00:11 · 6 answers · asked by sharrron 5

why do atheists want to remove God from everything because it "offends them" they are offended by a God they don't even beleive in, they want "In God we trust" taken off our money and "Under God" taken out of the pledge of allegiance, if they don't beleive in God, how can he offend them.

2006-08-20 18:00:10 · 14 answers · asked by Sammy Hagar 3

i am 18, starting college. i just notice it seems like everyone is drinking, i thin kit is stupid personally, i have drank beofre and i hate it, i hate the feeling of being drunk, but it seems like to be popular and social you have to be around drinkers or drink yourself, its too bad, i wish there was a gril out there for me who didnt drink, it seems like ALOT of girls drink, and then they do stupid ****.

2006-08-20 17:59:53 · 22 answers · asked by monkeyman19882003 1

2006-08-20 17:53:32 · 1 answers · asked by msmorris21@sbcglobal.net 1

2006-08-20 17:51:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

huh?

2006-08-20 17:50:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 17:46:53 · 14 answers · asked by Ayleen 2

2006-08-20 17:42:32 · 8 answers · asked by msmorris21@sbcglobal.net 1

2006-08-20 17:40:38 · 8 answers · asked by Summy 1

my favorite time is fall and winter

2006-08-20 17:31:18 · 19 answers · asked by yo 2

I sleep with the fan directly on me and on top of the covers, while my husband doesn't want the fan to touch him and he has on his socks and the covers up to his neck! We are like this every day from 0-100 degree weather! How do you sleep? Just curious!

2006-08-20 17:27:30 · 14 answers · asked by Kimmie 3

Hubby is getting stationed in Fallon, NV but we're probably going to live in Reno.

2006-08-20 17:25:33 · 4 answers · asked by April 3