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  |  | #4201 |   | Lawyer's Rule: 	When the law is against you, argue the facts. 	When the facts are against you, argue the law. 	When both are against you, call the other lawyer names.
  |    |  | #4202 |   | Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: 	No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- 	approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
  |    |  | #4203 |   | learning curve, n.: 	An astonishing new theory, discovered by management consultants 	in the 1970's, asserting that the more you do something the 	quicker you can do it.
  |    |  | #4204 |   | Lee's Law: 	Mother said there would be days like this, 	but she never said that there'd be so many!
  |    |  | #4205 |   | Leibowitz's Rule: 	When hammering a nail, you will never hit your 	finger if you hold the hammer with both hands.
  |    |  | #4206 |   | Lemma:  All horses are the same color. Proof (by induction): 	Case n = 1: In a set with only one horse, it is obvious that all 	horses in that set are the same color. 	Case n = k: Suppose you have a set of k+1 horses.  Pull one of these 	horses out of the set, so that you have k horses.  Suppose that all 	of these horses are the same color.  Now put back the horse that you 	took out, and pull out a different one.  Suppose that all of the k 	horses now in the set are the same color.  Then the set of k+1 horses 	are all the same color.  We have k true => k+1 true; therefore all 	horses are the same color. Theorem: All horses have an infinite number of legs. Proof (by intimidation): 	Everyone would agree that all horses have an even number of legs.  It 	is also well-known that horses have forelegs in front and two legs in 	back.  4 + 2 = 6 legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a 	horse to have!  Now the only number that is both even and odd is 	infinity; therefore all horses have an infinite number of legs. 	However, suppose that there is a horse somewhere that does not have an 	infinite number of legs.  Well, that would be a horse of a different 	color; and by the Lemma, it doesn't exist.
  |    |  | #4207 |   | leverage, n.: 	Even if someone doesn't care what the world thinks 	about them, they always hope their mother doesn't find out.
  |    |  | #4208 |   | Lewis's Law of Travel: 	The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, 	ever.
  |    |  | #4209 |   | Liar, n.: 	A lawyer with a roving commission. 		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
  |    |  | #4210 |   | Liar: 	one who tells an unpleasant truth. 		-- Oliver Herford
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