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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 589838, member: 6036&quot;]Chapman was wrong, as are most negative people (who refer to <i>themselves</i> as &quot;truly informed&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>To the Chapmans of the world, especially contemporary whiners, my man Teddy Roosevelt has this to say :</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">&quot;<b>It is not the critic who counts</b>; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">The <b>credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena</b>, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">who spends himself in a worthy cause; </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">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 <b>his place shall never be</b> with those <b>cold and timid souls</b> who neither know victory nor defeat. &quot;</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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