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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
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.. if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
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I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
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There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
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Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
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The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
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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.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers
Laurence J. Peter
Born:
September 16, 1919
Died:
January 12, 1990
(aged 70)
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