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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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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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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
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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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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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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."
Time
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
Education
"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
"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
Learning
"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
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
Crisis
"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
"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
"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
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