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- Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator and hierarchiologist
- Laurence Sterne: British author
- Sir Laurence Olivier: English actor and stage director
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism.
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
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