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December 28th, 2006

You Have No Enemies? Try a Little Harder

Most people just want to get along.  Just go with the flow and be friends with everyone.  God forbid if you stir up some controversy.  I guess that’s OK some of the time but  if you compromise on everything you end up being a nothing. 

I came across this poem this morning while reading a column.  I thought I would share.

You have no enemies, you say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.

– Charles MacKay (1814-1889)

Here’s to fighting the good fight and making some foes in 2007.

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