You catch more flies with honey, dontcha know?
Seriously though. The whole tough love thing—bad cop, worse cop, or whatever—gets a bit grating after the dogpile.
Worst. advice columnists. ever.
You wander in for advice, and you get censure. How pessimistic can you get?
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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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