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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by dragontamer on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:37PM (#20815480)
Well, it isn't "my" phrase. Its just the commonly attributed phrase.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/practice-and-theory/

This "practice and theory" quote was said by someone, but who exactly said it first was lost to time. Its not going to be possible to find the canonical quote (since the cannon-quote seems to be nonexistant). But its definitely a long-running idiom with some history.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by 4ntonius8lock on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:16PM (#20823037)
Hehe, you are right.

When I said 'mine'/'yours' I simply meant what we use.

I tend to presume that originality is near impossible with such pithy sentences. For quotes, I only quote things I actually read from the author.

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