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Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.
No way of knowing which way it's going.
Take your chances, there are no answers.
Hope for the best. Expect the worst.

— Mel Brooks The Twelve Chairs (1970)

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

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If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

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