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Message: [QUOTE="cferraro04, post: 2293716, member: 267"] The only reason I include Lobo is because it could be argued that Lobo started it all, a pioneer if you will. It is why I liken her to George Washington on Mount Rushmore. I went with Dee and Abraham Lincoln because Lincoln was a wartime President and Dee went to war with the powers that be, the evil empire...remember her punching the basketball stantion saying she just felt like punching something orange. I went with Maya and Thomas Jefferson because Maya is the statesman of the group...always carefully choosing her words before speaking. And, Stewie and Theodore Roosevelt because like Roosevelt, Stewie captured Roosevelt's life philosophy by living by the words uttered by Roosevelt from his famous “The Man in the Arena” speech. This tells us that the man / woman we should praise is the man / woman who’s out there fighting the big battles, even if those battles end in defeat. In our day, when cynicism and aloof detachment are considered hip and cool, Stewie channeling Roosevelt reminds us that glory and honor come to those “who spend themselves in a worthy cause.” Roosevelt 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, 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.” [/QUOTE]

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