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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
Laurence Johnston Peter
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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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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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard 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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