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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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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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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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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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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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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 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.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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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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