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  • Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

    "This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 12, 2012.