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Botany

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17. Robert W Service speaks for me.
Tue May 6, 2025, 10:43 PM
May 2025

GRIN


If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about—
Grin.
If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're licked beyond a doubt—
Grin.
Don't let him see you're funking, let him know with every clout,
Though your face is battered to a pulp, your blooming heart is stout;
Just stand upon your pins until the beggar knocks you out—
And grin.
This life's a bally battle, and the same advice holds true
Of grin.
If you're up against it badly, then it's only one on you,
So grin.
If the future's black as thunder, don't let people see you're blue;
Just cultivate a cast-iron smile of joy the whole day through;
If they call you "Little Sunshine," wish that they'd no troubles, too—
You may—grin.
Rise up in the morning with the will that, smooth or rough,
You'll grin.
Sink to sleep at midnight, and although you're feeling tough,
Yet grin.
There's nothing gained by whining, and you're not that kind of stuff;
You're a fighter from away back, and you won't take a rebuff;
Your trouble is that you don't know when you have had enough—
Don't give in.
If Fate should down you, just get up and take another cuff;
You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluff,
And grin.

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Of course it is. SheltieLover May 2025 #1
I remember the days of the McCarthy hearings when those terms were also used. erronis May 2025 #8
I suppose you are correct. SheltieLover May 2025 #10
Time to break out and re-read "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" no_hypocrisy May 2025 #32
Agree Meowmee May 2025 #2
Unfortunately, this tendency towards love of power is part of our genetics (I believe.) erronis May 2025 #9
Maybe part of people like psycho's but not of everyone's 😁 Meowmee May 2025 #12
Exactly. One of my daily refrains. yellow dahlia May 2025 #3
We sit and watch our great nation go down to idiots. rickyhall May 2025 #4
We sit and watch our great nation go down to idiots. rickyhall May 2025 #5
Just as Mao did KT2000 May 2025 #6
Didn't work out very well for Mao or his ravaged country. Expect the same here. erronis May 2025 #11
It worked for Mao edhopper May 2025 #15
He appointed idiots KT2000 May 2025 #30
Same thing happened under Stalin. yardwork May 2025 #34
Agreed. Pondering this for a week or so. BurnDoubt May 2025 #19
You know, The Cultural Revolution in China has popped up twice for me online recently, thanks, no doubt, to...... FadedMullet May 2025 #27
My friend who lived through KT2000 May 2025 #29
A Chinese friend of mine had a university professor father in northwest China. Irish_Dem May 2025 #31
An uneducated or undereducated population.... FoggyLake May 2025 #7
You are right-on! lastlib May 2025 #21
Like Pol Pot Nululu May 2025 #13
Very reminiscent of Pol Pot's crusade to kill all intellectuals and educated people. People with eyeglasses, were Martin68 May 2025 #14
1930s Germany Iamscrewed May 2025 #16
You know they hate history, ReRe May 2025 #22
Robert W Service speaks for me. Botany May 2025 #17
"Good Morning, Good Simpleton!"... BurnDoubt May 2025 #18
T. Jefferson: "An insightful and informed citizenry..... lastlib May 2025 #20
Fox News is their playbook Bayard May 2025 #28
Television in general has contributed to that. lastlib May 2025 #35
Turns out the "deep state" is the professionals who make the government function. hay rick May 2025 #23
"They want the only reality to be the one they create to benefit themselves" markodochartaigh May 2025 #24
There's a strong element of anti-semitism in this as well FakeNoose May 2025 #25
Yes. But there's a counter effort to recruit volunteers to create a centralized database to document summer_in_TX May 2025 #26
Yes. yardwork May 2025 #33
I once had a mentor/boss johnnyfins May 2025 #36
I was a billboard painter edhopper May 2025 #37
This is part of them wanting to eliminate the Middle Class. Liberal In Texas May 2025 #38
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