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How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

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Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.

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We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

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Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.

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The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

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It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

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Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.

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