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YOU SHALL PASS
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What I need to know
Might be quite different from
What you need to know
I must trust and honor your process
As you must trust and honor mine
Each student of Life has important lessons
Taught by that greatest of all teachers
Trial and Error
In the School of Hard Knocks we all attend
The world being what it is
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SAME OLD SAME OLD
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While I can't say anything new
I can say something true:
Your very best friend
Will be you, in the end
So honor yourself in all that you do
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BUY THE BOOK
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Biblio biblio biblio mancy
A simple idea that sounds rather fancy
Just open a book, any book will do
To a random sentence, read it through
It might contain wisdom or it might not apply
But you can't bibliomance until you try
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KING KONG KRAZY
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Rudeness is a weapon
A dramatic show of agitated threat
To disguise the lack of intellectual skills
They resort to a display like a gorilla beating his chest
Hoping to win by intimidation what they can not honestly come by
Using information and negotiation
This display of aggression has no traction in society
Where manners and mores are the grease that lets the wheels of progress
Turn, baby, turn
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DESPAIR NOT
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Goodness can use evil
For the ultimate purpose of good
Goodness can not be contained nor stopped
But evil has an expiration date
Wickedness is unsustainable
While goodness, found in so many hearts
Lives forever, is the very fabric of society
Evil is trampled underfoot
While goodness rises on the wings of an eagle
And blesses each moment with liberty and kindness
For all
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BOB BOB BOBBING
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Spring, spring - What will it bring?
It could be about anything
Snow or a heat wave, rain or drought
We must wait to see
How this spring plays out
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I have Spring in my heart
A spring in my step
This could be
The very best Spring yet
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I first saw one robin
Then the whole flock
All is working flawlessly
On our Mother's clock
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PLAN B
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The vulnerabilities of a system become obvious
When there is a failure - sometimes a catastrophic failure
Of the current system
So if you have failed, even spectacularly
Over a long time
YOU ARE NOT THE FAILURE
The system might have failed
Perhaps a flawed system, perhaps misdirected efforts
On our part, based on the information available
At that particular point in time
There is a weak point in any plan
Which can be analyzed and fixed
As long as you don't become the failure
You can become the fixer and overhaul the thing
Or put it in the round file
A new path to success always opens up
For the resilient one
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