Laurence J. Peter Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.”
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“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”
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“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
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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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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
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“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us”
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“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
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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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“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
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“A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.”
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“A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.”
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“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”
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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
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“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”
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“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
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“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”
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“The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.”
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“Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.”
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“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.”
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“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.”
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“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
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“Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?”
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“Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”
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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
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“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”
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“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”
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