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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Faults
Parents
Psychiatry
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
Art
Originality
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Laurence J. Peter
Faults
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Laurence J. Peter
Failure
Content
Question
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
Time
Bureaucracy
Past
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Laurence J. Peter
Expression
Fact
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter
Intelligence
Man
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Today
Tomorrow
Will
Yesterday
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter
America
Land
Taxation
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter
America
Country
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
Ignorance
Logic
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter
Man
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter
Man
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Laurence J. Peter
Man
Will
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
Man