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" 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
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" Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. "
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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. "
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" It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. "
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" Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. "
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" An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. "
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" An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. "
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" A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. "
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" As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. "
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" A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. "
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" In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. "
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" Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. "
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" There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. "
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" Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. "
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" If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? "
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" Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. "
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" Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. "
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" When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. "
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" Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. "
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" Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? "
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" A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. "
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" Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. "
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" Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. "
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