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Old 08-21-2013, 06:27 PM   #111
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey View Post
There'll always be "overachievers". As long as they don't set the standards by which everyone else is judged, I have no problem with it.
Unfortunately, by definition, "overachievers" are the gold standard by which we are all measured.
As the saying goes, "What a man has done, another can aspire to."

Whether in sport or the sciences, the high achievers set the bar that the ambitious seek to surpass.
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