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Arthur Honegger

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Ramakrishna

Amy Lowell

Benito Mussolini

Charles Peguy

Rachel Carson

Harry S. Truman

Fyodor Dostoevski

Myron Tribus

Henry Kissinger

Aelius Donatus

John Adams

GB Shaw

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G. K. Chesteron

Abraham Lincoln

James Branch Cabell

Peter McWilliams

Henry Commager

Socrates

Emanuel Swedenborg

Constantine Peter Cavafy

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Joubert

from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

Pope John XXIII

John Kerry

Plato

Salvador Dali

Robert Altman

Max Eastman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wilfred Peterson

C. Chesterfield

Sir Thomas Beecham

Pythagoras

Cytaty

Laurence J. Peter

US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.


Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.


An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.


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


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


Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.


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


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


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


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


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


Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.


Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.


Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.


Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.


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