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“Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.”
Michael Blake Quotes Source: Dances With Wolves
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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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“A free agent is anything but.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible.”
Paul Dickson Quotes 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.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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“Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.”
Paul Dickson Quotes Source: in the "Washingtonian", Nov., 1978
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Laws of Life and Nature Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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