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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

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
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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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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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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The unexpected always happens.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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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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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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