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"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."
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"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
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"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."
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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
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"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."
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"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
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"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."
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"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."
Talent
"At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory."
Time
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
Education
"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer."
War
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
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"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
Learning
"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
Fortune
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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