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"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."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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Personal Development
"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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Personal Development
"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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Personal Development
"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
Awareness
"But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics."
Economy
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
Justice
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
Family
"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."
Learning
"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."
Virtue
"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."
Work
"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
Development
"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
Information
"If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?"
Economy
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