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"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
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"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
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"Knowledge is like a vast ocean."
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"You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in."
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"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."
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"Learn, learn."
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"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
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"I don't study; I create."
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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
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"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth."
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"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."
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"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."
Life
"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."
Change
"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory."
Learning
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
Life
"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
Family
"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."
War
"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."
Friendship
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco."
Life
"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
Life
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