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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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"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
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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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"Those who trust us educate us."
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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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"We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new."
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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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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
Family
"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
War
"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
"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
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
Life
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
"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
"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
"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
Life
"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."
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