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"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.
David Crosby

99% of the game is half mental.
Yogi Berra

A .44 magnum beats four aces.
Unknown

A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
Unknown

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
Unknown

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
Daniel Boorstin

A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
Unknown

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
Unknown

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
Arthur Block

A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
Unknown

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
Confucius

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
Unknown

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Unknown

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Unknown

A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.
Unknown

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Doug Horton

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
Fred Allen

After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
Unknown

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
Unknown

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Edwin Lefèvre

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Unknown

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
Unknown

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
La Rochefoucauld

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
Peter Wastholm

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Unknown

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
Unknown

Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.
Unknown

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Unknown

Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.
Unknown

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Unknown

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James Matthew Barrie

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
Elias Schwartz

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
Weisert

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!
Murray Banks

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.
Unknown

Blessed are those who expect nothing... for they will not be disappointed.
Unknown

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown

Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
Unknown

Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
Unknown

Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
Unknown

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers

Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks

By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.
Unknown

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Doug Horton

Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
Unknown

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Leo Rosten

Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Unknown

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Unknown

Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson

Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Doug Horton

DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.
Unknown

Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.
Unknown

Do, or do not. There is no try.
George Lucas

Don't fear change -- embrace it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Don't let fear stop you.
William F. Light

Don't think, just do.
Reiko Horton

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
Unknown

Even a blind pig in a blizzard finds an acorn once in a while.
Unknown

Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.
Unknown

Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
Unknown

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Appius Claudius

Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
Jeremy Preston Johnson

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
Unknown

Every solution breeds new problems.
Unknown

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Unknown

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

Everything you do or say is public relations.
Unknown

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.
Unknown

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
Unknown

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Doug Horton

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Unknown

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Doug Horton

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
Unknown

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
Daniel Dennett

Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
Henry David Thoreau

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West

He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
Dr. Squid

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
Ernest Bramah

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
Unknown

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
Doug Hofstadter

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
Charlotte Brontë

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
Werner von Braun

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
James G. Bennet

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
Tim McGowan

I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton

I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
Unknown

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

I'd rather be rich than stupid.
Unknown

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
Unknown

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I

If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
Unknown

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Unknown

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
Jr. Murphy

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Doug Horton

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Unknown

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart

If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
Unknown

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Doug Horton

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
Shelly Horton

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Don Knuth

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Damien Cannon

If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
Unknown

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
Unknown

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Kehlog Albran

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Unknown

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Unknown

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal

It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
Unknown

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
Peter Benchley

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

It's not over until it's over.
Yogi Berra

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vincent T. Lombardi

Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.
Unknown

Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
Unknown

Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Unknown

Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
Winston Churchill

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
Lord Kelvin

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Unknown

Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Unknown

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Danny Kaye

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
Ross Presser

Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
Russell Banks

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams

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