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Newton's Little-Known Seventh Law:
A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
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Nick the Greek's Law of Life:
All things considered, life is 9 to 5 against.
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Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
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no brainer:
A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope,
is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally.
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no maintenance:
Impossible to fix.
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nolo contendere:
A legal term meaning: "I didn't do it, judge, and I'll never do
it again."
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nominal egg:
New Yorkerese for expensive.
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Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
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Nouvelle cuisine, n.:
French for "not enough food".
Continental breakfast, n.:
English for "not enough food".
Tapas, n.:
Spanish for "not enough food".
Dim Sum, n.:
Chinese for more food than you've ever seen in your entire life.
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November, n.:
The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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