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"In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues."
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
"I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are."
"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
"My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth."
"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst."
"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
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