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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. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#achievements #after #city #continued #except

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. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. ↗

— Will Smith

#been #ever #goofy #i #most

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#i #original #security #signed #social

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. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#allison #bicycle #commuting #finished #grades

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. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#bicycle #called #customers #delivering #first

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. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#dawned #day #every #excitement #fresh

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#best #group #lure #our #photograph

Subsidize... or lend. ↗

— Susan George

#subsidize

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

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