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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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"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."
War
"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
"While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students."
Life
"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."
School
"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
"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
Family
"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
"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
"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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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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Personal Development
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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"Dare to read."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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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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"Self learner, reading."
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