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

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

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"They never fail who die in a great cause."

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

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"Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems."

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

Education

"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."

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"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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"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."

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

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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."

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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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"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."

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"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."

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