“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it.”
Attributed in A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards; this is earlier attributed to Theodore Roosevelt in Life of William McKinley (1901) by Samuel Fallows, and could be derived from the remarks of Ulysses S. Grant in his First Inaugural Address (4 March 1869): "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution".
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“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
Variant: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Algernon, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p32.
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The cowboy in autumn https://world.wng.org/2016/04/the_cowboy_in_autumn (May 14, 2016)
“In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”
Source: Margarettown