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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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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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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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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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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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