"practice makes perfect "

does not apply to swimming in quicksand

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the phrase "toughened by adversity"

shouldn't lead you to go get AIDS to prove yourself

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"have faith"

doesn't mean you should call "love" your attraction to a boy who mistreats you constantly

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"calling upon your inner self"

isn't simply stringing a few oxymorons together within a few rhymes in an obscure manner.....no matter how many people praise you for your "deep wisdom"

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"live and let live"

is so easily abused it really needs no comment

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"it takes one to know one"

is only true for true human beings

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"have a nice day"

is only true on a nice day