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...exaggerating the snares you discredited the science of statistics. Even though my students affectionately call it "sadistics," Lord Kelvin's maxim still applies: "Unless yon have measured it, you don't know what you are talking about...
...surprisingly, eight of the ten losing Vietnamese presidential candidates cried "we wuz robbed!"-before the votes were totted. Such protests, said former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the observers, reminded him of the Tammany maxim: "Claim everything, concede nothing, and if defeated, allege fraud." Added Lodge: "I don't know why we treat some of the utterances of disappointed people over there any differently from the way we treat our own politicians here. A good old irreverent attitude toward some of these charges is somewhat in order...
...Most drivers, Purdy says, only learn to start, stop and steer. Tfte mark of a good driver is his ability to handle a skid, which almost no U.S. driving school teaches. And as a near infallible rule for staying out of trouble, Purdy cites the old truck drivers' maxim...
...cactus"-- tough on the outside but tender on the inside. The Sabras are not as worried about world opinion as their fathers were; they have recognized (and rightly so) that their country can not depend on allies for its defense. Their experience has taught them the Machiavellian maxim that guarantees mean very little when the cannons speak. They are building a political place for Israel in the Middle East in the same manner in which their fathers worked a garden out of the desert...
...game against California had taken place in 1965, and Boston was already assured of ninth place, what would Mike Andrews have done? He would have tried to knock the ball over the fence, heeding the maxim that home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Chevrolets...