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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Advertising
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Bureaucracy
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Competence
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
-Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle, chapter 1, 1969
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Democracy
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Education
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Effort
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Expertise
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Friends
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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
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Innovation
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Intelligence
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Miracles
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Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Opinion
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Opportunity
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Politics
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Prejudice
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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Problems
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Reality
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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Success & Failure
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
-Laurence J. Peter
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Wealth
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
-Laurence J. Peter
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Women
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Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
-Laurence J. Peter
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