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• All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
• In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Candide, Chap. xxiii...
• In this best of all possible worlds, everything is in a hell of a mess. -- Brother Theodore
• Shit Happens' according to... Leibniz (as interpreted by Voltaire)
  The best of all possible shit in this world made for shit....
• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson....
• The Cardinal Conundrum: An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.
  A pessimist fears this is true....
• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
  -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" 1951...
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world
  and the pessimist fears this is true." -- Irving Caesa...
• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
  The pessimist fears it is true. --Robert Oppenheime...