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• People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
• Exceptions always outnumber rules.
• The Leap Year Corollary: Exceptions always outnumber rules.
• All rules have exceptions-except the ones that don't.
• The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.
• BULLWINKLE: "You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
  GENERAL: "What does that make YOU?" BULLWINKLE: "What else? An executive..." -- Jay Ward...