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"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory."
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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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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"Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more."
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"I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience."
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"I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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"Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people."
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"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."
Life
"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."
Change
"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory."
Learning
"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."
Friendship
"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco."
Life
"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
Life
"What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist."
War
"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
War
"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
Life
"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."
Peace
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