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My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. – Joseph Stiglitz

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. – Joseph Stiglitz

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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. – Joseph Stiglitz

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Family
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. – Joseph Stiglitz

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Learning without thought is labor lost. – Confucius

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I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didnt all start just a few years ago! – Paul Prudhomme

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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. – Tracy Kidder

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I am still learning every day not to watch other peoples careers and compare. – Joely Fisher

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When will the public cease to insult the teachers calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? – William C. Bagley

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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. – Randy Neugebauer

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Ellis Peterss historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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More than we use is more than we want. – Scottish Proverb

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