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

Laurence J. Peter

Education

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

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

Fool

Job

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Laurence J. Peter

Danger

Doubt

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

Laurence J. Peter

Work

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

Sheep

Wounds

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

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Laurence J. Peter

Man

Poor

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Laurence J. Peter

Intelligence

Leisure

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

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

Regret

Speech

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

Laurence J. Peter

Problems

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Laurence J. Peter

World