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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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"There is no substitute for education."
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"Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise."
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"It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment."
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"Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards it's destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!"
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"Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing."
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"Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors, enjoy a bright future!"
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"We can find the answers will seek in books."
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"Discover. Read. Learn."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!"
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"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
Development
"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
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."
Change
"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."
Action
"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
"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."
Sports
"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
Policy
"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."
Economy
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
Family
"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
Awareness
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