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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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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If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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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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I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
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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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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of 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 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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