We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
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- Attributed to
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- 1900s / The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900) / The Strenuous Life
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