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• The effort to catch a falling, breakable object will produce more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place.
  -- Fulton's Law of Gravity...
• No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always serve as a bad example, or the exception that proves the rule (but only if it is the first experiment in the series).
  -- Futility Facto...
• Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. -- Carlson's Consolatio
• An object will fall so as to do the most damage. Selective Gravity Law
• Law of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
  Jenning's Corollary: The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet....
• An object will fall so as to do the most damage. -- Law of Selective Gravity The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
  -- Jenning's Corollary...
• Carson's Consolation: Nothing is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
• The Law of Selective Gravity (The Buttered Side Down Law)
  An object will fall so as to do the most damage....