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I have not had any serious non-academic job.
Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.
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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 the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.
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It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
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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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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
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the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
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The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.
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[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference.
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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
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Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.
Amartya Sen
I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.
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We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. ItÂ’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.
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Democracy is a universal value
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