"... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you."

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Source : Edna Ferber (1912). “Buttered side down: stories”

Edna Ferber

#Home Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!”
“If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.”
“The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.”
“The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.”

Source : Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.
“I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.”
“If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.”
“[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.”
“Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.”

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