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1. "My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I." ~ Douglass North
2. "I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s." ~ Douglass North
3. "I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research." ~ Douglass North
4. "My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best." ~ Douglass North
5. "Our family life was certainly not intellectual." ~ Douglass North
6. "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." ~ Douglass North
7. "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." ~ Douglass North
8. "I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley." ~ Douglass North
9. "I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war." ~ Douglass North
10. "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
11. "In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake." ~ Douglass North
12. "It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory." ~ Douglass North
13. "My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done." ~ Douglass North
14. "What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist." ~ Douglass North

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