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Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,

Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off
Before it has a chance to go two blocks,
At Colonel McComsky Plaza.  Berth’s Garage
Is on the corner facing west, and there,
Most days, you’ll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out.

Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps–
Five on the side, the old bubble-head style,
Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.
One’s nostrils are two S’s, and his eyes
An E and O.  And one is squat, without
A head at all–more of a football type.

Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards.
He was good:  in fact, the best.  In ‘46
He bucketed three hundred ninety points,
A county record still.  The ball loved Flick.

I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
In one home game.  His hands were like wild birds.

He never learned a trade, he just sells gas,
Checks oil, and changes flats.  Once in a while,
As a gag, he dribbles an innertube,

But most of us remember anyway.
His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench.
It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though.

Off work, he hangs around Mae’s Lunchonette.
Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball,

Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates.
Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods
Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers
Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.

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IF
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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 kiplings poem if

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Winner vs Loser
  by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

 


The Winner is always part of the answer;

The Loser is always part of the problem. The Winner is always has a program;
The Loser always has an excuse. The Winner says,”Let me do it for you;
The Loser says;” That is not my job.” The Winner sees an answer for every problem;
The Loser sees a problem for every answer. The Winner says,” It may be difficult but it is possible”;
The Loser says,”It may be possible but it is too difficult.” When a Winner makes a mistake, he says,” I was wrong”;
When a Loser makes a mistake, he says,” It wasn’t my fault.” A Winner makes commitments;

A Loser makes promises. Winners have dreams;
Loser have schemes. Winners say,” I must do something”;
Losers say,”Something must be done.” Winners are a part of the team;
Losers are apart from the team. Winners see the gain;
Losers see the pain. Winners see possibilities;
Losers see problems. Winners believe in win/win; Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.

Winners see the potential;
Losers see the past. Winners are like a thermostat;
Losers are like thermometers. Winners choose what they say;
Losers say what they choose. Winners use hard arguments but soft words;
Losers use soft arguments but hard words. Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;
Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values. Winners follow the philosophy of empathy: “Don’t do to others what you

would, not want them to do to you”;
Losers follow the philosophy, “Do it to others before they do it to you.”

Winners make it happen;
Losers let it happen.

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