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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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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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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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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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