<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Look Around</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Defending inferiority, <br>And those whose best accomplishments...<br>Is to achieve mediocrity, <br>To simplify what is complex...<br>Lowers yet even more, <br>Those expectations...<br>Each generation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>With each generation, <br>The taste for degradation...<br>Becomes a need that is craved.<br>Can this be an exaggeration? <br>Look around! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What has happened to those values, <br>And standards once praised? <br>Have they been embellished, <br>To laugh away these days? <br>Look around! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>Who 'is' responsible, <br>For ensuring traditions were erased? <br>Those that carried a pride on one's face! <br>Where are 'they' now to be found? <br>Below the garbage and trash, <br>That is thrown to the ground? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>Is that also blamed on those alien? <br>Those who are foreign, <br>With a wish to diminish the quality of this.<br>Look around.<br>No fee is charged for self assessments.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=438934" data-title="Look Around de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Defending inferiority, And those whose best accomplishments... Is to achieve mediocrity, To simplify what is complex... Lowers yet even more, Those expectations... Each generation. And... With each generation, The taste for degradation... Bec..."></div> </div> </div>

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