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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
 Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended 
it to happen.  
 Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended 
it to happen. 
 Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not 
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the read more 
 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. 
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
 About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the 
ends.  
 About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the 
ends. 
 Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never 
play cards with a man named Doc. And never read more 
 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. 
 Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice 
that is desired.  
 Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice 
that is desired. 
 Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a 
mistake when you make it again.  
 Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a 
mistake when you make it again. 
 A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until 
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.  
 A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until 
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.