"Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is."
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"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
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"Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken."
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""Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich.""
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"When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg."
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"Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!"
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"I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me."
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"To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness."
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"This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back."
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"Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs."
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"Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs"
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"The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it."
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"The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break"
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"It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'"
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"There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft."
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"Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?"
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"Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates."
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"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
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"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."
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"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now."
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