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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
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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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Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.
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Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s wealth was based on exploiting China. Japan’s wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.
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I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.
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I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.
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Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
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I have not had any serious non-academic job.
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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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Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.
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Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.
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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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Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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