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Be courageous and make the right decisions

In April 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States landed in Mombasa at the beginning of a post-presidency safari. Despite his extreme popularity in the US, he had refused to run for re-election the previous year and instead endorsed his close friend William Taft as successor.

President Theodore Roosevelt once said in his characteristic passionate manner that, ‘in any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.’

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