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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

— Laurence J. Peter Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)

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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

The Peter Principle (1969)

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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