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To: DJ MacWoW; Drew68
There are some people who take great pleasure & satisfaction in telling others they can't succeed, and gloating when they fail. Funny, such people don't achieve much themselves. To them I recall quotes from T.R.:

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.

46 posted on 12/15/2008 8:14:27 AM PST by ctdonath2 (I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!)
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To: ctdonath2

Great quote. Thanks.


52 posted on 12/15/2008 8:19:28 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: ctdonath2
There are some people who take great pleasure & satisfaction in telling others they can't succeed, and gloating when they fail.

No. It's like this. I believe that these BC Truthers are no friends to conservatism and the sooner they are sidelined and marginalized, the better for the rest of us to challenge Obama on issues that actually have merit and might resonate with real people.

72 posted on 12/15/2008 8:50:35 AM PST by Drew68
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