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  • Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. -- Paul Dickson
  • Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere. -- Theodore Sturgeon
  • I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies. -- Alastair Reynolds
  • My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature. -- Sam Yagan
  • But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. -- Esther Dyson
  • One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print. -- Jonah Peretti
  • A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution. -- Adrian Cronauer
  • What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man. -- Annie Besant
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  • I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed. -- Maeve Binchy
  • The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. -- Murray Rothbard
  • The Nordstrom corollary to that philosophy is hire the smile, train the skill. -- Robert Spector
  • Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate. -- Sylvia Plath
  • There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death. -- Denis Diderot
  • There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist. -- Jodi Picoult
  • As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. -- Louis Aragon
  • It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing. -- Wendell Berry
  • one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time. -- Doris Grumbach
  • Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ). -- Isaac Newton
  • Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival. -- Willard Gaylin
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