Central Oklahoma is the geographical name for the central region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is also known by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism designation, Frontier Country.
The Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area is the primary economic, tourism, commercial, industrial, and grographical hub of Central Oklahoma, as well as its primary cultural center, as the vast majority of Central Oklahoma's residents live in the greater Oklahoma City area. The only Central Oklahoma city which is not considered a suburb of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area is Stillwater.
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“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)