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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle -
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
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