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The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences:
He who has the gold makes the rules.
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The Gordian Maxim:
If a string has one end, it has another.
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The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog:
The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship,
his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks.
Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of
time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp
Hedgehog Eater.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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The Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.
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The history of warfare is similarly subdivided, although here the phases
are Retribution, Anticipation, and Diplomacy. Thus:
Retribution:
I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother.
Anticipation:
I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother.
Diplomacy:
I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you on the
pretext that your brother did it.
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The Illiterati Programus Canto 1:
A program is a lot like a nose: Sometimes it runs, and
sometimes it blows.
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The Kennedy Constant:
Don't get mad -- get even.
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The Law of the Letter:
The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.
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The Marines:
The few, the proud, the dead on the beach.
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The Marines:
The few, the proud, the not very bright.
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