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It always seems to make things better.
And here's the upsetting punch line: intelligence seems to make things worse.
If, as Hamlet says elsewhere, "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," then thinking seems to make things rather bad.
I have tried adding "In parts of the world people don't have water at all," but that only seems to make things worse.
The Brakebills kids had also read their Tolkien — and Harry Potter, of course, to which "The Magicians" (wherein sorcery, far from solving its unhappy heroes' problems, often seems to make things worse) sometimes seemed a direct rebuttal.
But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.
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On its face, this would seem to make things simpler.
He seemed to make things up effortlessly as he went along.
But in defending his record on air pollution, he also seemed to make things worse.
But his failure to retract the comment seemed to make things worse.
She writes herself notes: "No more peach slices". "Elizabeth is missing". But the notes seem to make things worse not better.
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