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He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

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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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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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The unexpected always happens.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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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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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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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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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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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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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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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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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Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
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