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- "The impossible made possible.
- The thing no one else dares to do, that everyone says can't be done.
- Imagine a boy standing on the shores of the Charleston Harbor.
- Two miles away, a faint line on the horizon, is Fort Sumter.
- All the other boys say it's impossible to swim there.
- But this one boy thinks it can be done.
- The others gasp as he kicks off his shoes, plunges into the water.
- They watch with shock as he grows farther from the shore.
- They whisper to each other solemnly, 'He'll drown. He'll never make it.'
- 'No, he'll turn around when it gets too hard.'
- "The water was cold and the current was strong.
- With every stroke, the boy had to fight off chills
- and battle the tide rushing in from the sea.
- Anyone watching him, as his schoolmates did from the shore,
- barely making out a tiny speck moving slowly across the water,
- would've thought he stood no chance.
- But that thought never entered the boy's mind.
- His muscles ached, his heart pounded,
- but the water would not defeat him."
- "The ramparts of the fort were still a mile away.
- But he had reached the point of no return.
- Turning back was no longer an option."
- "What drove Napoleon to keep marching toward Moscow?
- Or Hannibal to cross the Alps?"
- "What kept a young Frank Underwood swimming onward?
- And what kept him from drowning?"
- "On another day, with warmer water, with the current carrying him,
- he might have made it.
- But on this day, he would only make it halfway before his arms gave out
- and the numbness overtook him, before the coast guard
- pulled him out of the water despite his protests.
- Was he reckless? Was he foolish?
- Possibly.
- One thing can't be denied, however.
- What others saw as impossible, he refused to believe as such.
- The water proved him wrong. He fell far short of the other shore.
- And yet he made the attempt.
- And that... is everything."
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