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[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:23 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:39:42 -0500
> "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > Why does this remind me of Pangloss in Candide? 
> 
> I have no idea what that means.

Dr. Pangloss from  Voltaire's Candide. His best known phrase is:

"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"

He was the quintessential optimist to a fault. Even while being
arrested, tortured, natural-disaster-struck, etc. He would constantly
say that all is for the best. Candide could comfortably be considered an
early example of satire and a classic of western literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
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