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~America is
a country that doesn't know where it's going, but is determined to set a
speed record getting there.
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-Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our
Time, 1977
"America / Americanism / Americans"
(cf. SOCIETY:Hagen)
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*Oh, what tangled webs
we weave when first we practice to believe!
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-Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our
Time, 1977
"Belief"
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~Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
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-Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time,
1977
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By the time a man realizes that his father was
usually right, he has a son who thinks he's usually wrong.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian
any more than going to a garage makes you a car.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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A cultured person is one who can entertain
himself, entertain guests, and entertain ideas.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways
before crossing a one-way street.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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There are always too many Democratic
congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S.
congressmen.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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A sociologist is a scientist who blames
crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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What troubles the poor is the money they
can't get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can't keep.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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(This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This
will not be the final version of the text I use.)
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