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• Lady, lady, should you meet One whose ways are all discreet, One who murmurs that his wife Is the lodestar of his life, One who keeps assuring you That he never was untrue, Never loved another one.
  .. Lady, lady, better run! -- Dorothy Parker, "Social Note...
• The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea.
• If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
  Murphy's Original Law...
• PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that?
  Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!...
• There are more ways into the woods than out.
• Murphy's Law: prov. The correct, *original* Murphy's Law read
  If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it....
• There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend.
  Obsession, for one. The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea....
• There are more ways of killing a cat than buttering it with parsnip