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The complete excerpt, emphasis added:

My advice for young explorers, or anyone, is dream big and dare to fail. If you don’t try to accomplish your dream, you fail before you start. — Norman Vaughan

I heard this quote from a video clip by INDIE ALASKA, I have blogged about the channel last year:

Watch Kendo’s Cuisine | INDIE ALASKA

Norman Vaughan—or formally Colonel Norman Dane Vaughan—was born in 1905 and passed away in 2005, yes he had lived for a century, 100 years and 5 days, crossing two. Seeing not just two but South Pole and World War II, competing in Olympics games.

Went bankrupt at 68 and divorced. Most people would probably get even worse from that point on, but he turned around, rebuilding his life. At the age of 88, he climbed the 3,150m Mount Vaughan in Antarctica, the mountain named after him, on December 16, 1994, three days before his 89th birthday. There is also an associated glacier nearby called Vaughan Glacier.

You can understand why Kendo Shine quoted Vaughan’s words, a character like him, you would remember for entire life. I had never heard of him before this clip, but now I know his name and that quote will always be in my mind.