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• Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. -- Tom Stoppard
• Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. Spanish Proverb
• Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. -- Michel De Montaigne
• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
  -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard...
• A circle is the longest distance to the same point. -- Tom Stoppard
• Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -- Tom Stoppard
• It is better to be quotable than to be honest. -- Tom Stoppard
• It's better to be quotable than to be honest. -- Tom Stoppard
• Descended from apes! My dear, let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known.
  -- wife of the Bishop of Worceste...