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Richard Fish

Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever.

— Ally McBeal ‧ 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that doubt is a slippery slope: one second thought invites a third, then a fourth, until you never stop deliberating. His advice to distrust reconsideration is tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at overthinking as a trap that keeps a person mentally busy forever.

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