#cho

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

#clear #did #economies #fail #find

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. ↗

— Douglass North

#elementary school #i #ottawa #private #school

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

— Douglass North

#i #impression #left #life #my life

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

#boy #company #completed #even #father

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. ↗

— Douglass North

#college #competition #deeply #early #early life

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#circle #entirely #everyone #friends #give

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. ↗

— Edward Norton

#around #campaign #company #doing #easiest

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. ↗

— Edward Norton

#going #having #i #i remember #kid

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#flawed #i #interesting #people #psychology

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#corporal #punishment #reintroduce #schools #teachers