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So, I guess misintrepeted the quote the problem is: in reacting to our perfectionism we completely lower the bar, but when we meet our reduced expectations we don't attempt to raise them in a reasonable fashion. I think I understand what you're saying now.
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<font color=purple>When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.</font color=purple>
---<font color=black> Franklin D. Roosevelt</font color=black>
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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