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Reisner's Rule of Conceptual Inertia:
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
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Reliable source, n.:
The guy you just met.
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Renning's Maxim:
Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
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Reporter, n.:
A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a
tempest of words.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Reputation, adj.:
What others are not thinking about you.
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Research, n.:
Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.
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Responsibility:
Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is
a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something
goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it
is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they're smart, that is.
-- Cerebus, "On Governing"
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Revolution, n.:
A form of government abroad.
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Revolution, n.:
In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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revolutionary, adj.:
Repackaged.
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