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@@ -812,9 +812,9 @@ Haters Handbook
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All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism.
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-If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go
-wrong,
-and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
+Murphy’s Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in
+which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way,
+unprepared for, will promptly develop.
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Miksch’s Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end.
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@@ -1509,7 +1509,8 @@ of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of
the citizens.”
— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
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-If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
+Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have
+obviously overlooked something.
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Rules for thee, but not for me.
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@@ -3066,6 +3067,31 @@ from the Local Food Front, Joel Salatin
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Most open source software is free, at least at first glance.
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-The way to a man's stomach is through his esophagus.
+The way to a man’s stomach is through his esophagus.
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Trash the planet.
+%
+A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
+lawyer. — Robert Frost
+%
+Murphy’s Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
+%
+Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through
+bureaucracies.
+%
+Anderson’s Law: You can’t depend on anyone to be wrong all the time.
+%
+The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
+%
+You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some
+of the time, and that’s sufficient.
+%
+The Fame and Fortune Axiom: Competence is not a prerequisite for success.
+%
+Polis’ Attorney Law: Any law enacted with more than fifty words contains
+at least one loophole.
+%
+Pray — or you will become prey.
+%
+You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind
+word alone. — Irwin Corey