From " The Secrets of Married Men" from Psychology Today: The average woman uses 7,000 words a day and five tones of speech, [psychiatrist Scott Haltzman] points out. The average man uses 2,000 words and three tones. "Men are talk-impaired, relatively speaking," he says. I can relate to that.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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