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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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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
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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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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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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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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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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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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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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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If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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