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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Wow. Think about this quote in light of the elections.
“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 better. The credit belongs to the man 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 achievement, and 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.”

- Theodore Roosevelt
Now I remember why I campaign, even when it can hurt.......

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EMY!!! My darling girl, that was the THEME quote of the Iowa SATs! It started when Micah said it on the first day...and we quoted it daily. Then, at the last night, our favorite candidate and all-around most amazing man ever, Matt Reisetter, said it in a speech before the prayer!!!

*jaw drops*

Teddy was so awesome... *quotes* This is my all-time favorite quote...I have it on my wall.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- 11/9/2006 10:00 PM
- himalayan_honeysuckle (message)
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YOU WON!!!! WE WON TOO!!!! I EMAILED YOU ALL ABOUT IT!!!!! YAY!!!!! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!!!!! I WANT TO SEE YOU!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO GET IN A PLANE AND FLY ALL THE WAY TO BOISE!!!!!!!!!! THEN I'LL DRIVE THE REST OF THE WAY TO PYUTTE, AND FIND YOU SOMEWHERE. ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL, ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU SAID??????? WELL I WANNN DO IT!!!!!!!!! DON'T BE SURPRISED IF I SHOW UP THERE SUDDENLY!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wait, that's right, We're going to Virginia. I'm going to call, you though! On some free ngiht from the verizon cell phone!!! DON"T BE AT GREEK WHEN I CALL!!!!!
- 11/9/2006 10:41 PM
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Ahh...... it is a great quote. *feels a little bit more encouraged and enlightened*

Only Sane people?? Nope. Count me out. :P
- 11/9/2006 11:15 PM
- tfehrman (message)
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i join you on the "i'm not short" quotation

and, i love you

"and all at once the crowd begins to sing, sometimes we'd never know what's wrong without the pain

sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same"
- 11/10/2006 11:50 AM
- soulartistry (message)
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*thinks emy looks depressed* ;)
- 11/10/2006 1:31 PM
- joe_the_somebody (message)
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*changed your name*

That's awesome!!! :D I really hope Pence gets it...supposedly Boehner has a lot of pledges... :-\
- 11/10/2006 5:19 PM
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