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HEATING YOUR HOME
If the cats aren't sleeping on the radiators, turn down the heat.
Rob Shapiro, flight instructor, Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 6.2 out of 10 based on 35 reviews
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WINNING AT CHESS
Your primary goal is to be equally proficient in the opening, the middle-game, and the endgame.
Stephen Unsino, poet, Eastchester, New York
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Current Rating: 4.7 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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PLANNING AN INDEX
Allowing space for an index in a book is no problem once the type has been set and the indexing has been done. But with a new manuscript, you can only guess. As a rule of thumb, allow 1 page of index to every 40 pages of manuscript with average copy, 1 to 30 for a manuscript with a lot of names or technical terms, 1 to 50 for a book with comparatively few. Check your guess with the editor and use his figure if it differs from yours.
Marshall Lee, bookmaker
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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GROWING CHRYSANTHEMUMS
If you cultivate mums, don't leave home for more than three days.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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SELLING STOLEN PAINTINGS
A stolen painting will sell for one-tenth of what it would sell for on the open market.
Kat Dalton, artist, Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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WRITING A LETTER
A letter takes three times as long to write as it does to say.
Glenn Kornblum, St. Louis, Missouri
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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JUDGING THE QUALITY OF A SURVEY
A random sample of 1,000 is sufficient for most purposes. A random sample of 100 or less is too small for most purposes.
John Allen Paulos, mathematician
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DESIGNING A GUN
A safe rule, if you want to design a gun with recoil that is not too unpleasant, is to make the gun weigh at least 96 times the load of shot it is built to fire.
W. W. Greener, arms maker, from The Gun and Its Development (written in the 1800s)
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HOW TO SPOT A FRESH EGG
A hard-boiled egg will spin like a top; a fresh egg won't.
Ernst Luposchainsky III, polymathic layabout, inter alia, Hollywood, California
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 23 reviews
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PLANTING CORN
Plant corn when the oak leaves are the size of squirrels' ears.
Penelope Wickham, marketing director, American Demographics
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Current Rating: 4.6 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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WATCHING COMPANY CALLS
For every 1,000 telephone calls made by a large corporation, 100 are outside local, 10 are long distance, and 1 is international.
Steven Kropper, telecommunications consultant, Watertown, Massachusetts
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Current Rating: 5.0 out of 10 based on 13 reviews
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