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The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.


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DAVID LEVITHAN You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting f...
LARRY DAVID