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Vernon L. Smith

"In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school."

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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

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"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

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"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."

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Vernon L. Smith
"After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte."

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Vernon L. Smith
"In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school."

Home

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Vernon L. Smith
"After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics."

Economy

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Vernon L. Smith
"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."

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Vernon L. Smith
"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."

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Vernon L. Smith
"In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders."

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"Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness."

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"I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove."

Memory

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