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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none."
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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."
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"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."
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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
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"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
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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."
Family
"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
"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
"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
"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."
War
"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."
School
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
Cause
"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
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
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