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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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