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- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/funny-how-you-rarely-see-advocates-of-tough/
- Published: 2015-12-02T17:49:06.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-02T17:49:06.000Z
- Author: Joshua Lore
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1788408094757, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-03 00:01

> “Funny how you rarely see advocates of "tough love” apply it to themselves. Whether in personal or political domains – by some massive coincidence, tough love is for others only. Sure, the promoters \*think\* they apply it to themselves…but just about all the time, they don’t.  
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> Just as, by another astronomical coincidence, most people tend to ascribe most of their real or perceived successes (a universe resides in that “or”) to their own consciously willed activity, whereas most of their real or perceived failings (ditto) are ascribed to the vagaries of fate or chance.  
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> My prescription: Take one La Rochefoucauld and call me in the morning.“

Quote of the Day, from Doug Tarnopol