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"IT IS NOT THE CRITIC
THAT COUNTS,
NOT THE MAN WHO POINTS
OUT HOW
THE STRONG MAN STUMBLED
OR
WHERE THE DOER OF DEED
COULD
HAVE DONE THEM BETTER.
THE CREDIT
BELONGS TO THE MAN IN
THE ARENA,
WHOSE FACE IS MARRED
BY DUST AND
SWEAT AND BLOOD. WHO
STRIVES
VALIANTLY: WHO ERRS AND
COMES
SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN:
WHO KNOWS
THE GREAT ENTHUSIASMS,
THE GREAT
DEVOTIONS AND SPENDS
HIMSELF IN A
WORTHY CAUSE: WHO, AT
THE BEST,
KNOWS AT 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 TIMID SOULS WHO
KNOW
NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT.
Theodore Roosevelt
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