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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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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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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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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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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
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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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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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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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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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