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I honestly think you ought to calm down; take a stress pill and think things over.
— 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1968
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker recommends calming down, taking a pill and thinking things over. The polite opening presents these instructions as a reasonable course of action. Calming the immediate reaction and reconsidering things are presented as parts of the same request.
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