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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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Amartya Sen
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?
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The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own
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Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.
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The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
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