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Quote by James Tobin
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literat

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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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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The teacher of historys work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. – William Irwin Thompson

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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that Id composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. Im the same composer I was then. – Gordon Getty

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