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The following pages bring together my interests, particularly travel, photography, family history & maritime history in a manner which I have themed as Destinations & Diversions - Dan Cerchi

Effort and Success (Theodore Roosevelt) : In the battle of life it is not the critics who count; not the man who points    out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. The credit belongs to a man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have tasted neither victory or defeat.

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