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" The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math. " - Richard Thaler

" Study first, play afterwards. " - Daniel D. Palmer

" There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. " - Clarence Day

" My parents were teachers. " - Katrina Adams

" I went to Queen’s – a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class. " - Russell Smith

" My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s. " - David Lee

" I’m from Berkeley, California, so I’m fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can’t beat them, so we might as well index. " - Louis Navellier

" Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they’re opposed to it. " - B. D. Wong

" We are Punjabis from Amritsar, though I was born and brought up in Mumbai and did my Bachelors in Mass Media, specializing in advertising and marketing. " - Kajal Aggarwal

" As ordinary citizens, we don’t spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones. " - Rohini Nilekani