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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
Laurence Peter
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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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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
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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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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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