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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
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
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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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. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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