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• ‟ Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

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• ‟ I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

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• ‟ I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

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• ‟ While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

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• ‟ I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

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• ‟ I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

  - Douglass North