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  {
    "id": 1,
    "text": "In business, we do not lie; we just stretch the truth.",
    "year": "1991",
    "occasion": "just before a black eye",
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "text": "I've never understood real estate. The value of my house depreciated the second after that beautiful neighbor of mine moved.",
    "year": "1994",
    "occasion": "on neighbors"
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 3,
    "text": " I will hire you and you will hire me. We will both be employed.",
    "year": "1995",
    "occasion": "talking to a fellow colleague who had just received a pink slip. "
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 4,
    "text": "You must be from (name of a company)," a stranger remarked. "How do you know?" "Because you are running aimlessly in a circle!", came the response.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "accosted by a stranger while jogging on a circular track."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 5,
    "text": "Doing business without advertising is like kissing a woman in the dark. You have to kiss her, hanky panky a little so that she knows you are interested.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "making a suggestion to Director of Business Development."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 6,
    "text": " Show a broker a crack, and (s)he will pour a river right through it!",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "commenting on a broker who preys like a leech on financially unstable companies."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 7,
    "text": "Tell a broker you want a pony. (S)He will sell you a horse if (s)he had a dead one.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "on brokerage"
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 8,
    "text": "'CEO' stands for 'Chief Executing Officer'; 'CFO' for 'Chief Firing Officer'; and 'COO' for 'Chief Obdurate Officer.',
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "overhearing a disgruntled employee commenting on American corporate culture during a sluggish period."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 9,
    "text": "Mushrooms flourish on cow dungs.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "on people who thrive by pushing down others."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 10,
    "text": "Nepotism is, but the royal road to success for those who are spinless.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "criticizing a certain corporation."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 11,
    "text": "'Kissing' is a gesture; 'kissing up' is a means.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "on climbing corporate ladder."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 12,
    "text": "Success is when you can hold something up in your hand and say 'I made it on my own.'",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "on success."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 13,
    "text": "The general consensus is that the colors of eyes and hair make a person look beautiful. But let's not forget the color of nose, especially those brown ones.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "on climbing corporate ladder."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 14,
    "text": "Meetings are rests between coffee breaks for bureaucrats.",
    "year": "1996",
    "occasion": "caviling on lengthy meetings that run overtime."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },
{
    "id": 15,
    "text": "An enterpreneurial young chap came to a incubator to seek help with raising seed funding. The incubator manager immediately asked him for $2500 so that they could start stirring the pot.",
    "year": "2000",
    "occasion": "on incubators who are supposed to be experts in fundraising but cannot raise funds for themselves."
    "category": "business",
    "source": "https://www.dtrends.com/HAL/lim_saying.html"
  },

]