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Understand each item before testing yourself. Choose honestly whether it already feels familiar or needs practice.
It is easy to make boastful or unrealistic statements which are not backed by actions or evidence.
Example
Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. “Talk is cheap,” said Long Bill Hodge. “What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night.”
Apply ten proverbs when evaluating claims, anticipating risks, and discussing consequences.
It is easy to make boastful or unrealistic statements which are not backed by actions or evidence.
Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. “Talk is cheap,” said Long Bill Hodge. “What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night.”
One instance of an event (such as the arrival of a single bird) does not necessarily indicate a trend.
One swallow does not a summer make, nor one onion a spring garden.
One can only claim that something is a success after it has been tried out or used.
I know you didn't think it was a very good product, but just look at the fantastic sales figures. That's the proof of the pudding.
The specific provisions of, or particular steps for implementing, a general plan, policy, or contract may be complicated, controversial, or unworkable.
Krupp already has an agreement in principle for the deal, but precise details are still being worked out by Polish officials and a Krupp bargaining team (The devil is in the details, Beitz says).
If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and of no useful value.
Officials explained that the quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. Neil Hoke, administrative assistant to Stewart, quoted an adage of computer men: Garbage in, garbage out.
Advance awareness of a situation, especially a risky one, prepares one to deal with it.
[W]hatever a young gentleman of that age says to you, he says to many other ladies; but your experience is not equal to your sense; so profit by mine . . . forewarned is forearmed.
Well-intended acts can potentially lead to disasters.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or so many politicians in Germany’s three-party ruling coalition are now discovering.
Every decision has consequences; a person's actions will come back to them; if one starts trouble or takes actions in spite of the discontent they cause, one will incur negative consequences.
Before the attack started, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, decried efforts by his fellow Republicans to overturn the results of the election. But his eloquence was the very definition of a gesture both too little and too late. They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
The person who complains or speaks up most loudly receives the redress or attention which he or she seeks.
I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel / Always getting the grease
Saying too much or releasing confidential information can have dangerous consequences.
Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster. Of course the ships will all sink anyway, sooner or later.
