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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

This book is a compilation of quotes by Peter, focusing on providing readers with a diverse range of ideas and reflections on various aspects of modern life. The quotes are intended to inspire thought and discussion on topics relevant to the current era. more

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Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter was a renowned author and psychologist, best known for his book 'The Peter Principle'. This book introduced the Peter Principle, which states that in a hierarchy, every employee will eventually be promoted to a position they are unable to handle. more

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“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”

“The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.”