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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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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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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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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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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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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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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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