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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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