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Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)
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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.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn΄t happen today.

If you don΄t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.



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

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents΄ shortcomings.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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