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Now wait a minute. If I misunderstood what she meant, it”s because she didn’t say what she meant. There is NO WAY that aphorism can be construed to mean what you say it means without being linguistically dishonest. No way. If she meant to say ” There’s no need to dwell on the past—it is what it is, it can’t be changed, so you need to accept it, learn from it, and move on,” then that’s what she should have said. But she didn’t. She said something else (unless you misquoted her).
I suspect Oprah heard it someplace, thought it had a nice, profound ring to it, and appropriated it without stopping to think what the implications of it actually are. Or… maybe she really did mean every word of it.
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