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Lewis Thomas

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Lewis Thomas

Society

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When you choose to use a common or overused phrase, you have to own that choice completely without blaming it on an unknown person or society as a whole. This means accepting that the phrase reflects your own thinking rather than hiding behind the idea that it’s just something everyone says.

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