{"id":2224,"date":"2021-12-23T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nullthought.net\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2023-05-14T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T08:19:47","slug":"the-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nullthought.net\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"The right path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><p>I&#8217;m not a judge or jury. But I can tell you this: he won&#8217;t sell anybody out to buy his future!! And that, my friends, is called integrity! That&#8217;s called courage! Now that&#8217;s the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. <strong>I always knew what the right path was.<\/strong> Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? <strong>It was too damn hard. <\/strong>Now here&#8217;s Charlie. He&#8217;s come to the crossroads. He has chosen a path. It&#8217;s the right path. <strong>It&#8217;s a path made of principle &#8212; that leads to character.<\/strong> Let him continue on his journey.<\/p><cite>&#8212;delivered by Al Pacino, Lt. Col. Frank Slade Addresses Baird School Disciplinary Hearing, &#8220;Scent of a Woman&#8221; (1992)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scent of a Woman | &quot;I&#039;ll Show You Out of Order!&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jd10x8LiuBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Road Not Taken&nbsp;<br>BY&nbsp;ROBERT FROST<br>&#8212;<br>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br>And sorry I could not travel both<br>And be one traveler, long I stood<br>And looked down one as far as I could<br>To where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p><p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br>And having perhaps the better claim,<br>Because it was grassy and wanted wear;<br>Though as for that the passing there<br>Had worn them really about the same,<\/p><p>And both that morning equally lay<br>In leaves no step had trodden black.<br>Oh, I kept the first for another day!<br>Yet knowing how way leads on to way,<br>I doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p><p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br><strong>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230; I&#8217;m not a judge or jury. 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