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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
Laurence J. Peter
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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
Laurence Peter
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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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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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
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