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    An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

    Smart | Test | Taken


    Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

    Education | Grade | Method


    Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

    Work | Nowadays | Appointed


    Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

    Perfect | Nobody | Admit


    Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

    Parents | Faults | Correct


    Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

    Alone | Push | Slump


    America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

    Speed | Determined | Record


    Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

    Women | Men | Share


    Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

    Reputation | Expert | Three


    Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

    Level | Rises


    America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

    Government | Land | Taxation


    There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

    Admit | Rest | Kinds


    Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

    Democracy | Free | Blame


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

    Employee | Rise | Hierarchy


    Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

    Chance | Equal | Fair


    Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

    Teen | Parents | Wondering


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

    Time | Past | Lost


    Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

    Technology | Child | Force


    The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

    Meet | Poor | Judge


    Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

    Work | Hell | Rise


       

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