Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena"
"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."
"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."
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