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Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Topic: Fate
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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A free agent is anything but.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you
shouldn't have asked the question.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman
who's got more troubles than you.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
Topic: Laws of Life and Nature
Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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