{"id":7579,"date":"2026-03-10T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:31:23","slug":"09jul2019-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/09jul2019-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"09JUL2019 \u2013 Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>I ran this one a year and a half ago but it&#8217;s well worth running every year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Man in the Arena<\/strong> as it is called, \u00a0is part of a speech called Citizenship in a Republic made by Theodore Roosevelt in Paris, France on April 23, 1910.\u00a0 It&#8217;s well known but well worth requoting.<\/p>\n<p>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, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; 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 his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/whatfingernewslogo.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran this one a year and a half ago but it&#8217;s well worth running every year. 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