Success and Failure

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

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Measure twice because you can only cut once.

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Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.

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Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

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Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

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Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.

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It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?

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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

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It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

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Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

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If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

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Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.

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The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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