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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserv

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. – James Tobin

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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. – James Tobin

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Graduation
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. – James Tobin

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teacher
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before – or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. – James Iha

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Learning

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but Im learning. – Wilford Brimley

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Learning

I tell students, If you are learning from YouTube I almost dont want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn. They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version. – Kiri Te Kanawa

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Learning

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. – Thomas Merton

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Learning

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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. – Paramananda

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Meditation

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. – William Shakespeare

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good

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. – Winston Churchill

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Politics

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Death