Don Necessary:
CLASS OF 1970
Morton High SchoolClass of 1970
Morton, IL
Yorkville High SchoolClass of 1970
Yorkville, IL
Don's Story
Don is from Morton, Illinois. Don's schools include Morton High School. Don later attended Illinois State University (Applied Mathematics) .
Don's interests include Politics. Music Don likes includes Bonnie Raitt, Classical, Atmospherics. Books Don likes include Shelf Life, Soldier, Free Ones. Movies Don likes include A Beautiful Mind, The King's Speech (Film), Inside Job.
One of Don's favorite quotes is:""A Nation of the People, by the People and for the People shall not perish from this earth" - Abe Lincoln
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living." - Gen. Omar Bradley
"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 them 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
-Teddy Roosevelt
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, donât deal in lies,
Or being hated, donât give way to hating,
And yet donât look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream â and not make your dreams your master;
If you can think â and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth youâve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and buildâem up with wornout tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And now so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them:âHold on!â
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings â nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty secondsâ worth of distance run â
Yours is the Earth and everything thatâs in it,
And â which is more â youâll be a Man my son!
- Rudyard Kipling".
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