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If you are wise, you will never stop striving to be better. When you do stop striving, you will fail to achieve your goals, and that failure will only serve to keep you striving on. A friend of mine once said, "If you want to be the best at something, the best you can be is good. If you want to be average at something, the best you can be is excellent."
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