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• The amount of flak on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject's true value.
• Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time, you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.
  -- Devyver's law...
• At any given moment, a society contains a certain amount of accumulated and accruing aggressiveness.
  If more than twenty-one years elapse without this aggressiveness being directed outward, in a popular war against other countries, it turns inward, in social unrest, civil disturbances, and political disruption....
• The amount of pleasure derived from a cigarette is directly proportional to the number of the non-smokers in the vicinity.
  -- Raj K. Dhawa...
• Potter's Law The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject's true value.
• In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
  -- Michael T. Minerath...
• The amount of time spent by a committee on an agenda item is inversely proportional to the cost of the item.
  -- Parkinson's Law of Committee...
• The amount of time you have to wait for a bus is directly proportional to the inclemency of the weather.
  -- John Corcora...
• Barber's Laws of Backpacking 1) The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail you choose to hike always comes out positive.
  2) Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure....