"Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship."

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Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”

Stephen Potter

“It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.”
“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
“I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.”
“Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.345, Pan Macmillan
“That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired billionaire Warren Buffett as his senior economic advisor. And not to be outdone Gary Coleman announced his senior economic adviser will be Thurston Howell the Third.”
“To win, I have to get angry. My anger is directed at the course, at attacking it and beating it.”
“If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it”

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