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What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters__ooks, money, tennis__e would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.
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What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters__ooks, money, tennis__e would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.

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