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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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Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, ISBN 0880297689, p. 78

 

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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