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Any sufficient technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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A computer's attention span is only as long as it's power cord.
Anonymous
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Anthony's law of force:
Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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Atwood's Fourteenth Corollary:
No books are lost in lending except those you particularly wanted to keep.
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Avery's law of lubrication:
Everything needs a little oil now and then.
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Blaauw's Law:
Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology.
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Bombeck's rule of medicine:
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Boob's Law:
You always find something the last place you look.
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Boozer's Revision:
A bird in the hand is dead.
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Boren's Law of the Bureaucracy:
1) When in doubt, mumble.
2) When in trouble, delegate.
3) When in charge, ponder.
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Borkowski's Law:
You can't gaurd against the arbitrary.
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Bowie's Theorem:
If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.
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Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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Canada Bill Jones's Supplement:
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
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A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to stick in
his mouth.
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A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.
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A cup of coffee does not a breakfast make.
But a cup of coffee and a cigarette -- now you're talking!
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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Modern technology requires millions of dollars to make things smaller and
smaller, but laundries have been doing the same thing for years,
free of charge.
Seattle PI Chuckle 10/27/83
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Wolf's Axiom:
Love stinks.
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Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
Excerpt from the notebook of Lazarus Long.
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It pays to be obvious.
Especially when you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Excerpt from the notebook of Lazarus Long.
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Never play cards with a man named "Doc",
never eat at a diner named "Mom's",
and never get involved with a woman who's problems are worse than yours.
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent.
Alain
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There are more dusty Bibles than dusty books of pornography.
Russian Proverb
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
Mencius
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What most people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidities.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
Epicurus
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I have lived fifty years to know the mistakes of the forty-nine.
Chinese Saying
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A thing that nobody looks for is seldom found.
Pestalozzi
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back
the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end up
showing a side that is beautiful.
R. L. Stevenson
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Fleas are, like the remainder of the universe, a divine mystery.
Anatole France
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All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things
against him, but we never hear his side.
Mark Twain
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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Believe the doubter, and doubt when you are told to believe.
Ludwig Borne
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There are more fools than sages, and even in a sage
there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
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A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang Tse
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
G. K. Chesterton
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Dirt is almost as omnipresent as God.
Friedrich Hebbel
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing happens to you that hasn't happened to someone else.
William Feather
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Is Paris burning?
Adolph Hitler
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There is nothing more horrible than imagination without taste.
Goethe
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There's another advantage to being poor -- a doctor will cure you faster.
Kin Hubbard
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How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and
disregard what is at their feet.
Goethes Mother
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Be frank and explicit. That is the line to take, when you wish to conceal
your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
Disraeli
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It is in human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
Montaigne
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently
arranged have different effects.
Pascal
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There is no medicine, there are only medicine men.
There are no diseases, there are only patients.
Salvador de Madriaga
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Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with
his old shoes.
Lord Halifax
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Muddle-headedness is a condition precedent to independent thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the
heart, the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
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Nature is visible thought.
Heinrich Heine
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"It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always
say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man's head off."
Charles Dickens
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I can stand any kind of society. All I care to know is that a man is a
human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Mark Twain
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
G. B. Shaw
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are
others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot
into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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If the government were as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of
disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Kin Hubbard
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Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.
C.G. Jung
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He calls it loyalty to his party: but it's only laziness; he doesn't want to
get out of his bed.
Frederick Nietzsche
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It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.
Oscar Wilde
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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across
somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy
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Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws.
Ambrose Bierce
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little
worse and sell a little cheaper.
John Ruskin
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An ambitious man can never know peace.
J. Krishnamurti
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Fun is like life insurance: the older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard
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How much depends on the way things are
presented in this world can be seen from
the very fact that coffee drunk out of
wine-glasses is really miserable stuff,
as is meat cut at the table with a pair
of scissors. Worst of all, as I once
actually saw, is butter spread on a
piece of bread with an old though very
clean razor.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a
philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
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Pessimism is essentially a religious disease.
William James
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Nobody can become perfect by merely ceasing to act.
Bhagavad-Gita
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Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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A person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself
by saying, "I'm only human, after all".
Sydney Harris
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It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the
number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Mark Twain
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Repartee: Any reply that is so clever that it makes the listener wish he had
said it himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so,
and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
George Santayana
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Genealogy: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not
particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce
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