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Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly.
An aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week....
Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.

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