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"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
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"Learn, learn."
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"You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in."
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"Study the nature around you, but also within you."
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"Study the Bible, there God is the teacher."
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"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."
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"It is important to study your mission and your goal."
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"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."
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"Knowledge is like a vast ocean."
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"Prayer is the companion of Bible study."
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"In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study."
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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
Family
"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
War
"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
"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
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
Life
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
"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 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
"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
Life
"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
Life
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