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@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ A drug is that substance which, when injected into a
rat, will produce a scientific report.
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A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
+ -- Klipstein
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A fool and his money are invited places.
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@@ -155,9 +156,6 @@ her opposition.
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept
and the hours are lost.
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-A memorandum is written not to inform the reader
-but to protect the writer.
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A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick
in the pants.
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@@ -315,9 +313,6 @@ never be followed by a crowd.
Anything good in life either causes cancer in
laboratory mice or is taxed beyond reality.
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-Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or
-fattening.
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Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.
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Anything is possible, but nothing is easy.
@@ -353,8 +348,6 @@ if it succeeds.
Automotive engine repairing law:
If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.
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-Avoid reality at all costs.
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Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.
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Bad news drives good news out of the media.
@@ -566,8 +559,6 @@ embarrassment of estimating the corresponding costs.
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Go where the money is.
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-Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
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He who dies with the most toys wins.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
@@ -768,6 +759,7 @@ occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
If things were left to chance, they'd be better.
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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
+ -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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If we learn by our mistakes,
I'm getting one hell of an education!!
@@ -1030,6 +1022,7 @@ It works better if you plug it in.
It's always darkest before ... daylight saving time.
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It's always darkest just before the lights go out.
+ -- Alex Clark
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It's always easier to go down hill, but the view is
from the top.
@@ -1059,8 +1052,6 @@ cater to your favorite neurosis.
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King Arthur ran the first knight club.
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-Last guys don't finish nice.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you. cry and ...
you have to blow your nose.
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@@ -1103,8 +1094,6 @@ Mass man must be serviced by mass means.
Misery no longer loves company
nowadays it insists on it.
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-Most people deserve each other.
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Most people want to be delivered from temptation but
would like it to keep in touch.
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@@ -1144,6 +1133,7 @@ Never get excited about a blind date because of how
it sounds over the phone.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
+ -- Erma Bombeck
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Never insult an alligator
until after you have crossed the river.
@@ -1180,6 +1170,7 @@ No experiment is ever a complete failure.
It can always be used as a bad example.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
+ -- Clare Boothe Luce
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No major project is ever installed on time, within budgets,
with the same staff that started it. Yours will not be the
@@ -1505,9 +1496,6 @@ is in print.
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Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it.
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-Some people manage by the book, even though they
-don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
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Souffles rise and cream whips only for the family and
for guests you didn't really want to invite anyway.
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@@ -1564,6 +1552,7 @@ proportional to the number of other people who are in
a position to do it instead.
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
+ -- Eric Sevareid
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The client who pays the least complains the most
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@@ -1650,8 +1639,6 @@ The higher the level of prestige accorded the people
behind the plan, the least less chance there is of
abandoning it.
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-The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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The inside contact that you have developed at great
expense is the first person to be let go in any
reorganization.
@@ -1994,8 +1981,6 @@ not symbolically.
Usefulness is inversely proportional to its reputation
for being useful.
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-Virtue is its own punishment.
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Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by
spontaneously moving from where you left them to where
you can't find them.
@@ -2041,8 +2026,6 @@ When all else fails, read the instructions.
When an exaggerated emphasis is placed upon delegation,
responsibility, like sediment, sinks to the bottom.
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-When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
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When in doubt, don't mumble, overexpose ... then mumble.
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When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.
@@ -2081,6 +2064,7 @@ When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it
around instead of picking it up.
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When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
+ -- Lynch
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When the government bureau's remedies do not match your
problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
@@ -2181,8 +2165,7 @@ You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to
float on his back, you've really got something.
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You can never do just one thing.
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-You can observe a lot just by watching.
+ -- Hardin
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You can pray hard enough to make water run uphill
how hard?
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