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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
Author
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Excellence
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Perfection
Positive
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Self
Defeating
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