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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
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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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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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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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 unexpected always happens.
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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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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 always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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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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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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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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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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