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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure

Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.

Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation

Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.

Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

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Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.

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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.

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Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.

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Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

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Sex is what women have and men want.

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.

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Stupidity is also known as a medical disorder known as a rectal-cranial inversion.

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Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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