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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
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Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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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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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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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