[Woodstock, New York]
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It is not
the critic
who counts;
not the man
who points out
how or where
the doer of deeds
could have done 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
in the end
the
triumph of high achievement,
and
who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least
fail while
daring
greatly,
so that
his place shall
never be with those
cold and timid souls
who neither
know
victory
nor
defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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