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• do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

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  Law, May, Tomorrow

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

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  Political, Credit, Politics

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• There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

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  Humility, Two, Literature

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• May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

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  Happiness, Sadness, Blessing

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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Ignorant, Armor

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• You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

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  Feel Good, Advice, Needs

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• Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

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  Mediocrity, Wave, Tolerate

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• We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

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  Hate, People, Giving

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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  Funny, Men, Experts

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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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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  Names, Doe, Pay

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

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  Tired, Age, Middle

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• Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

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  Laughter, Two, Prejudice

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• Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

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  Jobs, Giving, Poverty

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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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  Retirement, Fun, Age

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• The unexpected always happens.

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  Unexpected, Happens

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• Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

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  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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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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  Communication, Mean, Worry

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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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  Smart, Taken, Men

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• Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

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  Birthday, Worry, Age

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

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  Age, Generations, Middle

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• Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

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  Important, Literature, Committees

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• He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

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  Laughing, Lasts, Humour

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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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  Believe, Men, Belief

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.40, Harper Collins

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