Setting out first thing in the morning, especially on an autumn or winter day, when you might get some atmospheric fog on the water, you can almost fool yourself into feeling that you are journeying back into the past.

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You can fail to engage the crowd, you can make a fool of yourself, you can attempt too little or too much and miss the mark.

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There are, you know, in a normal political society, you can make forecasts and predictions and, you know, go on Sunday morning shows and make a fool of yourself, but sometimes you can be right because people talk and debate, and there's real politics.

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Now you can brush up on your movie knowledge more easily before you make a fool out of yourself at parties, thanks to new info cards that are now being integrated into Google Play Movies.

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But things can only go wrong when you start to fool yourself.

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