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Magnocartic, adj.:
        Any automobile that, when left unattended, attracts shopping carts.
                -- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
 
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Magpie, n.:
        A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it
        might be taught to talk.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
 
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Maier's Law:
        If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
                -- N.R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960

Corollaries:
        (1) The bigger the theory, the better.
        (2) The experiment may be considered a success if no more than
            50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to
            obtain a correspondence with the theory.
 
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Main's Law:
        For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
 
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Maintainer's Motto:
        If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
 
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Major premise:
        Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
Minor premise:
        A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion:
        Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Secondary Conclusion:
        Do you realize how many holes there would be if people
        would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
 
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Majority, n.:
        That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
 
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Male, n.:
        A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex.  The male of the
        human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man.  The genus
        has two varieties:  good providers and bad providers.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
 
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Malek's Law:
        Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
 
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malpractice, n.:
        The reason surgeons wear masks.
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