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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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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
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The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.
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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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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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Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
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Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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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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