Success and Failure

Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

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Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure

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

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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

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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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If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.

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I'd rather be rich than stupid.

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I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

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Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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

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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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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

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Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?

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