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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Laurence J. Peter A man convinced against his will is not convinced. - Laurence J. Peter A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. - Laurence J. Peter A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. - Laurence J. Peter Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. - Laurence J. Peter America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. - Laurence J. Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. - Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. - Laurence J. Peter Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. - Laurence J. Peter Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. - Laurence J. Peter Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. - Laurence J. Peter Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. - Laurence J. Peter Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. - Laurence J. Peter Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. - Laurence J. Peter Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. - Laurence J. Peter Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. - Laurence J. Peter If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. - Laurence J. Peter If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. - Laurence J. Peter In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. - Laurence J. Peter Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Laurence J. Peter Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. - Laurence J. Peter Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? - Laurence J. Peter Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. Peter Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J. Peter Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. - Laurence J. Peter Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. - Laurence J. Peter Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J. Peter The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Laurence J. Peter The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. - Laurence J. Peter The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. - Laurence J. Peter The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. - Laurence J. Peter There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. - Laurence J. Peter When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. - Laurence J. Peter Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter 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 You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. - Laurence J. Peter
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