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Some Unfortunate True laws of the Nature of Things Page 3
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If you have only one nail, it will bend.
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Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.
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Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you when things go wrong.
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The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and
directly with its ugliness.
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When the need arises, the tool or object closest to you becomes a hammer.
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the
person in front of you.
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When things are going well, something will go wrong.
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick
himself up and continue on.
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In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going
on; eventually this person will be fired.
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A proliferation of new laws creates a proliferation of new loopholes.
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If only two cars are left in a vast parking lot, one will be blocking the other.
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Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them later.
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If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.
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A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
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