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“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

From Roosevelt's 1910 'Man in the Arena' speech, a celebration of those who dare to act.

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