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Laurence J Peter：经典英语语录与格言

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“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Competence
“Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Competence
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Bureaucracy
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Economics
“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Competence
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Democracy
“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.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Anger
“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Competence
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Intelligence
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  No category
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Belief
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
— Laurence J. Peter  ·  Ignorance
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