A View from Behind the Curtain: Making the Norwegian Nobel Committee Proud.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Making the Norwegian Nobel Committee Proud.

When you rush to judgment, for any reason, you often end up regretting your choices. Way back in 2009 a bunch of people in Oslo almost tripped over themselves to award our President the Nobel prize for Peace, noting in the award it was presented for “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

This caught my eye in the news and commentary yesterday, The Washington Times, Commentary, Michael S Smith II. I wonder how the committee views their choice now?

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The Man in the Arena

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 who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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