In this best of all possible worlds, everything is in a hell of a mess.

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• All is for the best in this best of all possible
  worlds...
• 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...
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
  and the pessimist fears this is true." -- Irving...
• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
  The pessimist fears it is true. --Robert...
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
  and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch...
• The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that?
  To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions...
• If this were the best of all possible worlds, I could come to the phone right now,
  but I can't, so if you could leave your name and number...