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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

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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
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DOUGLASS NORTH When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p...
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DOUGLASS NORTH I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
DOUGLASS NORTH I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did n...
DOUGLASS NORTH It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c...
DOUGLASS NORTH I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow...
DOUGLASS NORTH I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
DOUGLASS NORTH I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I su...
DOUGLASS NORTH I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly ...
DOUGLASS NORTH My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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DOUGLASS NORTH The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements ...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
DAVID DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I kept knocking with my fist.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, whe...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciat...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monste...
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DALE DOUGLASS If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
DAVID DOUGLASS We are aware of the situation. The bulletin was released in January and we've been working to try to...
RICHARD DOUGLASS Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and w...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It's intruding on the local collective bargaining process by enforcing a base salary that wasn't arr...
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DOUGLASS YOUNG I took one step behind the register where the wall was at. When I picked up my other foot, one of th...
DOUGLASS YOUNG I yelled to the others, 'Run to the back, run to the back.'
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DOUGLASS SMITH Recruiting is a tough mission, but it's a mission that can be achieved working within the regulation...
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DEXTER DOUGLASS The secretary did not exercise her discretion lawfully in the manner contemplated by this court's di...
DEXTER DOUGLASS What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

I answer: a day that reveals to him,...
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DELPHINE DOUGLASS A variety of vegetables arrive on soup day.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It's not just our interest in giving children quality nutrition because they deserve it. For childre...
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It feels really good to know we're giving them good food to grow on.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS This bill will set a new minimum, and the minimum becomes the zero step on the salary schedule.
DALE DOUGLASS He kids me about that all the time. He claims it's his putter. It isn't.
DALE DOUGLASS That's the main thing about him. He's a great dad and great granddad.
DALE DOUGLASS Bobby, I know I just shot a 72, but I've had a fantastic and rewarding life and now I'm going out to...
DALE DOUGLASS I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRY

Throughout my life, the United States has been ...
STEPHEN DOUGLASS Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
DAVID DOUGLASS I don't see that she's the type of player who's going to sit on the bench her entire freshman year. ...
CRAIG DOUGLASS We know she's a good kid and a good student. Before we even talked about basketball, I decided she w...
CRAIG DOUGLASS The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own ...
JAMES DOUGLASS Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would delib...
DAVID DOUGLASS However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surfac...
DAVID DOUGLASS As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this fi...
DAVID DOUGLASS One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adve...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS a woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above al...
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NOLAN NORTH A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi...
OLIVER NORTH God knows, we don't want prayer.
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OLIVER NORTH I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
OLIVER NORTH Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Miss...
OLIVER NORTH I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th...
OLIVER NORTH I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
OLIVER NORTH If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter ...
OLIVER NORTH I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of...
OLIVER NORTH The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...
OLIVER NORTH As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser...
OLIVER NORTH We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
OLIVER NORTH The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'w...
OLIVER NORTH Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percen...
OLIVER NORTH The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...
OLIVER NORTH Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lif...
OLIVER NORTH I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
OLIVER NORTH All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
OLIVER NORTH What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
GARY NORTH Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionabl...
GARY NORTH Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid fo...
GARY NORTH Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
GARY NORTH One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's coco...
OLIVER NORTH The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the takin...
DUDLEY NORTH Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
ALEX NORTH There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
ALEX NORTH The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the...
ALEX NORTH My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
ALEX NORTH I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
ALEX NORTH I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of ...
ALEX NORTH Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commer...
ALEX NORTH Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impos...
ALEX NORTH Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
ALEX NORTH I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law...
GARY NORTH Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to...
LORD NORTH Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and...
NOLAN NORTH I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration ...
OLIVER NORTH We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goa...
OLIVER NORTH I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em...
NOLAN NORTH I don't think it makes any difference.
ANDY NORTH I wouldn't say either of us hit the ball fabulously, but we hit some good shots when we needed to. T...
ANDY NORTH Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot.
ANDY NORTH Go out and do what he did.
ANDY NORTH