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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
Laurence Peter
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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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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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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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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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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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