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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
-Colin Powell
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You Don't Know What You Can Get

Colin Powell
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.
Land People Waiting
There are those of us who are always about to live. we are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. it always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.
Tired Waiting Events
Come away with in the night come away with me and i will sing you a song come away with me on a bus come away where they can't tempt us with there lies i want to walk with you on a cloudy day in fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high so won't you try to come come away with me and we'll kiss on a mountain top come away with me and i'll never stop loving you and i want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof while i'm safe there in your arms so all i ask is for you to come away with me in the night come away with me.
Song Lying Rain
Mr hemingway does it extremely well. nothing matters. everything happens. one wants to keep oneself loose. avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. don't get connected up. if you get held by anything, break it. don't be held. break it, and get away. don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. just get away, for the sake of getting away. beat it! "well, boy, i guess i'll beat it." ah, the pleasure in saying that
Boys Somewhere Else Ideas
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. but a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in kentuckywhere they make bourbon. and he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. but if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. so don't try to take it too quick. and don't try to do all of it at once. i don't do much promising. i tell what my goals are and then i try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. we say put the coonskin on the wall.
Wall Drinking Character
I don't know how much of a natural human i am. y'know, the truth is, i never set out to do that, and i don't think of myself like that. i don't think like that. it's not really about promotion - i don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. that's just money. and i like money, don't get me wrong. i don't know. i don't get it. i don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, i think.
Thinking Truth Is Promotion
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