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• Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.

  Tom Coughlin

  Expectations, Work Ethic, Levels

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• I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

  Emile Hirsch

  Mean, Ideas, Sometimes

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• If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Real, Giving

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• By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

  Richard Branson

  Keys, Loyal Customers, Expectations

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• We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

  Robert Grudin

  Freedom, Creativity, Reality

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Friendship, Team

  "Unleash the Power Within" seminar, September 2005.

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• The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.

  Avro Manhattan

  Real, Government, Oil

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• To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

  Robin Crow

  Expectations, Firsts, Raises

  Robin Crow (2010). “Evolve or Die: Seven Steps to Rethink the Way You Do Business”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Fire, Hell

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• It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

  Roberta Williams

  Work, Expectations, Seems

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• The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

  Danny Gokey

  God, Christian, Thinking

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• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Math, Understanding

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• Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

  Epictetus

  Delightful, Delightful Things, Dues

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Writing, Names, Errors

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• To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

  Thomas Browne

  Deeds, Infamous, Worthy

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)

  Brian Kernighan

  Mean, Firsts, Dimensions

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. ...I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Blessing, Our Generation

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• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Government, Class

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.112, Aeterna Press

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• There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Beauty, Earth, Natural

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• Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

  Og Mandino

  Thrive

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• Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Progress, Holiness, Holy

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.192, Moody Publishers

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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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• You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

  Saint Stephen

  Powerful, Humble, Compassion

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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