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tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
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
tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4wuke9ix · submitted 1997
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/nsh95i8e · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/vdvrew4w · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
tiny.ag/xhom8dbn · submitted 1997
Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.
tiny.ag/cdzh2i5q · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/2j17qytc · submitted 1999
One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
tiny.ag/u05c2aqo · submitted 1997
Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/zoq7mjnx · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/lem4yqnc · submitted 1997
One does not make friends, one recognizes them.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
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