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Laurence J Peter Inspirational Quotes (76)

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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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