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I hate phrases which try to persuade you that all hopeless or degraded situations can be made better by mindless enthusiasm:
Go for it!
Go that extra mile!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
Every cloud has a silver lining!
The early bird gets the worm
Used to know an elementary schoolteacher, girlfriend of a friend of mine, who would pepper me with these phrases constantly; whatever problem I had, she had a platitude for it. Then life threw her a couple of not-too-serious curve balls and she just about shut down. Maybe she was talking to herself, all that time.
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