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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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It's much better to try and do big, exciting things and sometimes fail than to never try at all, because not trying means you never really win or lose and life becomes boring and dull.

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