[2424] in Humor
HUMOR: Rules of the Modern World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Aug 21 20:24:13 1998
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:22:25 -0400
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>***
>
>If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
>tried.
>
>A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
>
>Experience is something you don't get until just after you
>need it.
>
>For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
>
>He who hesitates is probably right.
>
>Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
>
>No one is listening until you make a mistake.
>
>Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
>
>The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to
>press on it.
>
>The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of
>the bread.
>
>To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal
>from many is research.
>
>To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your
>principles.
>
>Two wrongs are only the beginning.
>
>Work is accomplished by those employees who are still striving
>to reach their level of incompetence.
>
>You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (The
>corollary is: You never learn to pray until your kids learn to
>drive!)
>
>The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
>
>Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
>
>The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have
>to catch up. (Project Management at its best).
>
>
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