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Never tell me the odds--numbers confuse me.
Never tell. Not if you love your wife.... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it.
Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya....
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- Gen. George S. Patton, "War As I Knew It", 1947...
Never tell them what you wouldn't do. -- Adam Clayton Powell
Never tell the platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do. -- Murphy's Military Laws, #57
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. -- Mark Twai
Never tell your resolution beforehand. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Wisdom
Never test for a bug you don't know how to fix. -- QA Manage
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
-- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming...
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert--and then make it brief.
-- Gene Fowle...

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