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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
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If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.
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