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14. No matter what Hillary did,
Thu May 25, 2017, 10:30 AM
May 2017

it was not going to be enough for some people. It's easy to criticize mistakes made by someone who is actually out there, trying to get something done, while you sit comfortably in front of a computer, not taking half the risks that the person you're criticizing is taking. As Theodore Roosevelt might have said:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the (one) who points out how the strong (woman) stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the (woman) 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 (herself) in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if (she) fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that (her) place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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