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The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.
Robert Fogel / Historian
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Views
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I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Life My Life Important
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Raise
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In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Jobs
Average
Died
Retirement
Nearly
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I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.
Robert Fogel / Historian
New York City
Russia
City Parents New
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Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Businesses
Establish
Several
Small Businesses
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Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Adults
Children
May
Nourishment
Pregnant
Centuries
Proper
Smaller
Therefore
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The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Domination
Exercise
Indictment
Count
Permitted
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The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Blame
Credit
Federal Reserve
President
Want
Bank
Cycle
Effect
Influences
Reserve
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People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Leisure
Leisure Time
Afford
Freedom Time People
More And More
Richer
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The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Technology
Physiological
Rate
Remarkable
Simple
Synergy
Two
Addition
Beyond
Improved
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Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Effort
Leisure
Miles
Retirement
Certainly
Couch
Potato
Same Thing
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In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Human Body
Longevity
Past
Size
Three
World
Centuries
Millennia
Previous
Rapidly
Substantially
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One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Age
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Son
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One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'
Robert Fogel / Historian
Life Change Age
Blamed
Change The World
Startling
Troubles
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The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Wise
Book
Deep Understanding
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As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Basics
Shelter
Well Being
Adds
Clothing
Total
Enhance
Enough Money
Expenditure
Purchase
Small Part
Spiritually
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My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Accomplishment
Dedicated
Levels
New York City
Preparation
Strive
Teachers
Attract
Talented
Encouraged
Highest Levels
Public Schools
Remarkably
Schools
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No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Science
Teacher
Church
Done
Election
Harlem
Individual
Leader
Pursue
School
Sunday
Sunday School
Youth
Campaign
Career
Episcopal
Forty-Five
Head
Help
Met
Morgan
School Teacher
She
Wallace
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Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.
Robert Fogel / Historian
Men
Science
Past
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