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Laurence J. Peter

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

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"Fortune befriends the bold."

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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."

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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."

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"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

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"Fortune, that favors fools."

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"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
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"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
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"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
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"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
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"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."
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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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"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise."
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