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• Rhode's Law: When any principle, law, tenet, probability
  happening, circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe....
• When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening
  circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe....
• Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXIII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• There comes a time in a man's life when he must rise above principle.
• Anthony's Law of the Workshop Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
  Corollary to Anthony's Law On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first always strike your toes....
• When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
  -- Johnson's First Law...