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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
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Vancouver
British Columbia
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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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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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
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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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A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
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We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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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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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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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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In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
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He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
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do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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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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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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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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