"Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering."

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

Stephen Potter

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“When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.”
“I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.”
“... someday we'll remember so much we'll build the biggest ***** steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.”
“We like to think there is this core of human nature â€“ that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.”
“Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.”
“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1854). “The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers”, p.498
“Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.”

Source : Song: Christmas Dragnet
“When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.”

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