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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure

Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.

Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation

Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.

Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

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Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.

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Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.

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Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.

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Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

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If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

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If you're here, you're alive.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

Unknown, in Health and Disease