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"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
Work,

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
Man,

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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