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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.

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No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

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Hall's Law. There is a statistical correlation between the number of initials in an Englishman's name and his social class (the upper class having significantly more than three names, while members of the lower class average 2.6.)

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All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

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Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

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Baldy's Law. Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it.

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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.

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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.

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Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson

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Bio: Paul Dickson is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects, including baseball and the military.

Known for:

Sputnik
The Bonus Army
Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
The Hidden Language of Baseball
War slang

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