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Former Member
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Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant.
This constant is always zero |
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Former Member
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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure
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Former Member
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The person at the meeting or discussion who is right will be the person who is not listened and will later be blamed for coming up with the bad idea.
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Probabilities serve only and exclusively to determine the degree of improbability of the catastrophes that actually take place.
Corollary: If something is likely to happen AND desirable, it won't happen. |
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Once you open a can of worms, the only way you can recan them is to use a larger can. (Old worms never die; they just worm their way into larger cans.)
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If an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book
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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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mfbabb2
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Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong ... and will do so at the most inopportune moment!
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The bigger your yellow pages ad is the more low priced calls from non-repeat customers you will get.
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What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
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