"No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be."
"If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell."
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Source: Chuck Thompson (2010). “To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism”, p.15, Macmillan
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