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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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Jenkinson's Law:
It won't work.
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Jim Nasium's Law:
In a large locker room with hundreds of lockers, the few people
using the facility at any one time will all have lockers next to
each other so that everybody is cramped.
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job interview, n.:
The excruciating process during which personnel officers
separate the wheat from the chaff -- then hire the chaff.
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job Placement, n.:
Telling your boss what he can do with your job.
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jogger, n.:
An odd sort of person with a thing for pain.
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