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interest, n.:
What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and
burned out employees must feign.
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Interpreter, n.:
One who enables two persons of different languages to
understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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intoxicated, adj.:
When you feel sophisticated without being able to pronounce it.
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Iron Law of Distribution:
Them that has, gets.
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ISO applications:
A solution in search of a problem!
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Issawi's Laws of Progress:
The Course of Progress:
Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress:
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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It is fruitless:
to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lactate fluid.
to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
innovative maneuvers.
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"It's in process":
So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless.
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italic, adj:
Slanted to the right to emphasize key phrases. Unique to
Western alphabets; in Eastern languages, the same phrases
are often slanted to the left.
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Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government:
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the
legislature is in session.
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