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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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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"It is possible to find the passion to read."
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"Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing."
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"Knowledge is acquired by diligent study."
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"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."
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"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."
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"Life is education, it only end in death."
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"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
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"No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!"
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"Don't stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you've been. Start local anyway!"
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"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
"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
"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."
School
"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
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
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
"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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