Laurence J. Peter

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

  Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 333

  • Thinking

• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

  • Success

• Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

  • Christianity

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy