Ever since man invented the wheel, he has been the confused victim of the miracles he has wrought.


Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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DR PETER GREGORY
The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit fro...
DR PETER GREGORY
Surgery is an option, but the advice we have received from two leading specialists is that the injur...
DR PETER GREGORY
With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. What we weren't able to do was give him a ...
DR PETER GREGORY
With this kind of injury you have to wait. We'll have a better idea next week.
DR PETER GREGORY
With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. There is no definitive on whether to opera...
DR PETER GREGORY
There is, in my view, nothing more important than saving a child's life, and we need to strengthen o...
DR PETER SALAMA
Everybody thought that we were progressing so well that we would just continue to progress. But in f...
DR PETER SALAMA
The suggestion that there is an unwillingness to admit to the jurisdiction of the contractor-general...
DR PETER PHILLIPS
International partners, such as the FBI, have indicated and offered their services in facilitating t...
DR PETER PHILLIPS
I want us to be assured when those local government elections are held that the KSAC will return to ...
DR PETER PHILLIPS
The entire world has an interest in us having a peaceful and pleasant experience in World Cup 2007.
DR PETER PHILLIPS
I can’t do without God, my greatest comfort where no human can reach.
DR. PETER TSOU
I have been waiting 25 years for this time.
DR. PETER TSOU
Getting a sample from a comet but not landing on it, is probably the best chance we have of discover...
DR. PETER TSOU
It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pris...
DR. PETER TSOU
I have checked the capsule ... now I can call the mission a full success.
DR. PETER TSOU
It's a perfect landing...we are jumping and applauding. I can hardly sleep. Nevertheless I had been ...
DR. PETER TSOU
Surgically, the failure rate is 2 to 6 percent. The bone is not as dense in all areas of the mouth. ...
DR. PETER LALIBERTE
If there is no stimulus of mechanical action on the bone, the surrounding bone will gradually disapp...
DR. PETER LALIBERTE
The bridge would have cost about $3,100, because you are working on three teeth.
DR. PETER LALIBERTE
We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work.
DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS
It's no mystery to doctors that the over-the-counter preparations may not do much for the cough but ...
DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS
Cough is the single most common reason that patients in the U.S. go to their doctor. Since it's a pr...
DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
LAWRENCE J. PETER
The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and...
PETER J. RICHERSON
Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by ...
PETER J. RICHERSON
Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall...
PETER J. TOMASI
Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you ...
PETER J. CARROLL
A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
PETER J. WETZELAER
It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change ...
PETER J. CARROLL
The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of s...
PETER J. CARROLL
(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, disciplin...
PETER J. CARROLL
There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ...
PETER J. CARROLL
Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL
And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, whe...
PETER J. TANOUS
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE
As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE