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BUYING MUSIC
If you like a new song when you first get it, you'll tire of it in four weeks; if you hate it at first, you'll like it in about six months; if you feel indifferent about it, you'll always feel that way.
Cliff Martin, Eugene, Oregon
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COMMITTING SUICIDE
How a suicidal person is born influences their choice of suicide method. People who commit suicide by hanging were likely deprived of oxygen at birth. People who shoot themselves in the head were likely delivered with forceps. Mothers of people who overdose were probably anesthetized for the delivery. Cesareans tend to slit their wrists.
Terry Larimore, writer and therapist, Houston, Texas
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Current Rating: 3.2 out of 10 based on 27 reviews
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BUILDING A CHURCH
A church needs 1 acre for every 100 people.
Bill, Muskatene, Iowa
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Current Rating: 4 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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GRAZING A HORSE
Provide at least one acre of good pasture per horse.
Clarence Morgan, The Morgan Palomino Ranch
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ADDRESSING ENVELOPES
The average person can attach 400 to 450 pressure-sensitive address labels to envelopes per hour. Someone who is very good can do 800.
David Updike, President, The Mail Box of Ithaca, Ithaca, New York
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MANAGING THINGS
No manager or supervisor should have responsibility for more than six separate activities.
Lester R. Bittel, management consultant
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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CONVERTING APARTMENTS TO CONDOMINIUMS
When converting apartments to condominiums, you must be able to sell the condos for twice the price you paid for the apartment building, or you won't make any money.
Vince Mooney, real estate broker, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Current Rating: 4.4 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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ICE CREAM
If there's frost on the ice cream in your freezer, it's been there too long.
Kim Murphy, columnist, Portland, Maine
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Current Rating: 6.4 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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SAVING LIVES
You have one hour to get trauma patients to a hospital.
Anonymous doctor
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FERTILIZING TOMATOES
Fertilize tomatoes for the second time when the first cluster of fruit starts to ripen.
Peter van Berkum, Kittery Point, Maine
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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FORECASTING THE WEATHER
Raccoons feed heavily 48 hours before the approach of a large winter storm.
Thomas W. Neumann, anthropological archaeologist, wildlife ecologist, and field crew crisis manager
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Current Rating: 5.0 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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