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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
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China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
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Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.
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It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.
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