A View from Behind the Curtain: Shoes

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Shoes

There are all kinds of shoes, for all kinds of people. Sometimes when you try on a pair it feels perfect, but when you actually have to wear them they end up creating blisters.

Some people will fit themselves into fashionable shoes and no matter how much they chaff or rub, or how uncomfortable they may be – they will suffer the pain because they match the style they want.

Other times a shoe looks like it might be a good fit, but the style is completely wrong, the color not just right, or the workmanship leaves something to be desired.

Politicians are like shoes, except people spend more time considering whether a shoe is a good fit than considering whether a politician is.

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Jeannette said...: Well yes, and I can probably imagine what triggered the underlayment that you are still thinking about. After a good pair of shoes sometimes a good wrap for the knee is needed, you know to stop the random jerking...; September 27, 2012 at 9:32 PM

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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