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"It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."
"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year."
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
"When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this."
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"Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price."
"The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly."
"The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist."
"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."
"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists."
"Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University."
"My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938."
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