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In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.

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Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

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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're here, you're alive.

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If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

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If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

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Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

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Everything you do or say is public relations.

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.

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Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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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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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.

Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), in Vice and Virtue