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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 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.

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

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

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

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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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Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.

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Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

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Change is good, but dollars are better.

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Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

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Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

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Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

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Beat your own and others will fear you.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Altruism and Cynicism

Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children.

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