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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
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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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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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites 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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