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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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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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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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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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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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