Author

Laurence J. Peter

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“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”— Laurence J. Peter
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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.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”— Laurence J. Peter
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“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”— Laurence J. Peter