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Results of search for Author: Laurence J. Peter - Page 1 of 1
Showing results 1 to 9 of 9 total quotations found.

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), Peter's Quotations, by Laurence J. Peter, 1977
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