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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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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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The unexpected always happens.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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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 work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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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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He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
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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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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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