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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Peter's Law of Substitution: Look after the molehills, and the mountains will look after themselves. Peter's Principle of Success: Get up one time more than you're knocked down. | |
| Status Substitution: Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to substitute for an object that is merely pricey: "Brian, you left your copy of Camus in your brother's BMW." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
| Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution. The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
