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First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

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Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Everyone smiles in the same language.

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Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

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Everything you do or say is public relations.

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.

Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation

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

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Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.

Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), in Vice and Virtue

Good friends stab you in the front.

Unknown, (from the movie Can't Hardly Wait; sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde), in Love and Hate

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death