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"To Be or Not To Be"

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"To be or not to be, --that is the question:--
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"

- Shakespeare

-- From Hamlet (III, i, 56-61)
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