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No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o’clock in the morning is always parked under your window.

Second Law of Travel

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At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits you is the one not in the sale.

Eve's Discovery

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Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

Ringwald's Law of Household Geometry

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Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.

Peter's Inversion

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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's Razor

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Never throw away anything unless you know what it came from.

Rawson's Second Law

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1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

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You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

First Rule of Negative Anticipation

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The one who does the least work will get the most credit.

Shapiro's Law of Reward

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Kierkegaard's Observation

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When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Otten's Law of Testimony

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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Stein’s Law

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Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by incompetents.

Theory of Organizational Deviance

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On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Anonymous Murphy's Law

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Enough research will tend to support your theory.

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When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.

Poulsen's Law

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 2)

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.

No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o’clock in the morning is always parked under your window.

At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits you is the one not in the sale.

Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Never throw away anything unless you know what it came from.

1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

The one who does the least work will get the most credit.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by incompetents.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Enough research will tend to support your theory.

When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.