<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Jaundiced view?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We fail because we never learn<br> the lessons that the past can teach.<br>The sound advice we choose to spurn<br> will place success beyond our reach</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The question is what is success? <br>To have the latest gadgetry<br>Apparently the answers yes.<br>although they are not necessary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Technology moves on apace.<br>Things soon become obsolete.<br>The greatest failing of our race<br>We are determined to compete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead of working side by side<br>to benefit everyone.<br>The powers that be will still decide.<br>That they’ll be better on their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To show the rest they are the best.<br>Which fosters greed and selfishness.<br>What does it matter if the rest<br> are left to live in wretchedness..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me first, me first the constant cry.<br>I do not care a toss for you<br>You cannot win if you don’t try<br> to stay ahead the way I do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will succeed at any price<br>and you will pay for my success.<br>I know that I will not think twice.<br>My only aim is to impress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I choose to live in luxury<br>I see no reason I should not<br> Although you live in poverty<br>I will not share what I have got.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s human nature at its worst.<br>I see no signs that it will change.<br>Our creed has always been me first.<br>I do not find it to be strange.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then I am a realist<br>I view the world cynically.<br>and not as an idealist<br> would like to see it be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">03/09/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413458" data-title="A Jaundiced view? de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="We fail because we never learn the lessons that the past can teach. The sound advice we choose to spurn will place success beyond our reach The question is what is success? To have the latest gadgetry Apparently the answers yes. although they ..."></div> </div> </div>

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