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The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

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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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Freedoms
Primarily
Members
Society
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The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
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Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
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we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.
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I have not had any serious non-academic job.
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