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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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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
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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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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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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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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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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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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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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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
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