Laurence J. Peter

An educator.

1. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

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2. Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

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3. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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

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5. Fortune knocks but once.
   Misfortune has much more patience.

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6. If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

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7. If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

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8. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear, but forgetting where you heard it.

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9. Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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10. Television has changed the American child from an unstoppable force into an immovable object.

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12. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
    [The Peter Principle]

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13. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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14. The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

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