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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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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J. Peter

Funny, Men, Experts

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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

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Inspirational, Dog, Hands

Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.53, Harper Collins

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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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Funny, Girl, Mother

Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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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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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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Work, Opportunity, Men

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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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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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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

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Egypt, Moses, Stills

Laurence J. Peter (1986). “The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?”, William Morrow

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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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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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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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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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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

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Laughter, Two, Prejudice

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The unexpected always happens.

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Unexpected, Happens

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

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Tired, Age, Middle

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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.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence, Plus

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

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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

Smart, Taken, Men

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Born: September 16, 1919
Died: January 12, 1990
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