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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green.
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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
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The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
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