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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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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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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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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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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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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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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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