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Inspirational Quotes by Laurence J. Peter
- If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
- The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
- There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
- Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
- In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
- If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.
- The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
- The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
- It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
- There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
- There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.
- A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
- They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
- A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
- The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
- Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
- A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
- A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
- Ignorance is the mother of research.
- He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
- A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
- If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
- Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento