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First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.

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First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

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For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but he also admitted doing it. Now, do you know why his father didn't punish him? Because George still had the axe in his hand.

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Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance

God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.

Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

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Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

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Death is nature's way of recycling human beings.

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Cynics are made, not born.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.

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Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

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Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.

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Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.

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