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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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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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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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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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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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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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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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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