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"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
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"The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits."
"When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time."
"Growth is one of the most natural process of life."
"Develop your intellect and your creative ways of thinking."
"Developing the man within leads to changing a man's value and behavior."
"Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations, to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry."
"If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders, somatic diseases and personal degradation."
"There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development."
"You must live a life of self-consciousness always."
"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."
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"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
"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."
"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."
"Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them."
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."
"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
"There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists."
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
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