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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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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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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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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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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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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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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 man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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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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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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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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