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It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser.
Phyllis Diller
(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress
Problems
Situations
Hairdresser
Wind
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
1867 – 1931) English novelist
Failure
Problems
Ruts
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Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.
Stettner's Law for Surgeons
Doctors
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Patients
While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly.
Dror's First Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Science/Weather
Difficulties
Increasing rate
If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
Proverb
Activities
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Travel
Accident: When presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Anonymous
Accidents
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity… another man’s, I mean.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Problems
Adversity
Misfortune
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.
Tim Allen
(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents
Autos
History
Eyewitness Accounts
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Anonymous
People
Problems
Drowning man
Rain
Things go right so they can go wrong.
Maahs's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.
H.L. Mencken
(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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When you’ve made gravy under gunfire, you can do anything.
Bill Waddington
(1916 – 2000) English music hall performer, comedian & actor
Problems
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As Percy Sugen in “Coronation Street”
Capabilities
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F Kennedy
(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president
Characteristics
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Bad
Presidency
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.
Tim Allen
(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents
Autos
History
Time
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Men still die with their boots on, but usually one boot is on the accelerator.
Evan Esar
(1899 – 1995) humorist
Accidents
Autos
Clothing
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Boots
A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.
Horowitz's Rule
Computers
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Murphy’s Laws
Things
Time
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison
(1943 – 1971) rock singer
Life
Mistakes
Haircuts
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
American proverb
Problems
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If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Murphy's Sixth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.
Titanic Coincidence
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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