Mark Hanna Quote Question

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 16, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> And, of course, "Practice, practice, practice!" (Or, as my adviser used
> to tell me, "Focus, focus, focus!"). Of course, Carnegie Hall actually
> needs all three--location, money and lots of practice.
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 5/16/2012 3:19 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>> This parallels the frequently-heard line about real estate: location,
>> location, and location.

it looks like we're about to re-do our discussion of the Rule of Three and the X3 snowclone exemplified by "location, location, location".  summary in:

AZ, 11/27/04: Twos and threes:
 http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001673.html

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