“Then I remembered something I’d read that Teddy Roosevelt had said: “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…who strives…who spends himself…and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
― Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
“He felt the withering of something, the way risk was increasingly eliminated, replaced with a bland new world where the viewing of food preparation would be felt to be more than the reading of poetry; where excitement would come from paying for a soup made out of foraged grass. He had eaten soup made out of foraged grass in the camps; he preferred food.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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