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James Tobin

"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."

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"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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Amber Hurdle

"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."

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Amber Hurdle

"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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Amber Hurdle

"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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Amber Hurdle

"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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Amber Hurdle

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It s never too late to save time."

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James Tobin
"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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James Tobin
"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

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James Tobin
"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

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James Tobin
"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."

Time

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James Tobin
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

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James Tobin
"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

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James Tobin
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."

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James Tobin
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."

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James Tobin
"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."

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James Tobin
"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

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