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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Laurence J. Peter
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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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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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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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