#fe

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. ↗

— Alex North

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There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. ↗

— Alex North

#directors #few #music #musical #who

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#hell #i #paradise #prefer #right

Our family life was certainly not intellectual. ↗

— Douglass North

#certainly #family life #intellectual #life #our

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

#because #berkeley #did #feeling #go

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

— Douglass North

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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

#case #companion #continues #critic #editor

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

— Douglass North

#around #banking #centered #dissertation #early

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