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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

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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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Literature
Fact
Facts
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Many
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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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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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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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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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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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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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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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