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| #4241 | | Major premise:
Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
Minor premise:
A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion:
Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Secondary Conclusion:
Do you realize how many holes there would be if people
would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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| #4242 | | Majority, n.:
That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
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| #4243 | | Male, n.:
A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the
human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The genus
has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #4244 | | Malek's Law:
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
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| #4245 | | malpractice, n.:
The reason surgeons wear masks.
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| #4246 | | management, n.:
The art of getting other people to do all the work.
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| #4247 | | manic-depressive, adj.:
Easy glum, easy glow.
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| #4248 | | Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion
with confidence.
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| #4249 | | manual, n.:
A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given
item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information
you need is in the others.
-- Ray Simard
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| #4250 | | Mark's Dental-Chair Discovery:
Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a
simple yes or no answer.
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