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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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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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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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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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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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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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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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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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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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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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