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It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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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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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
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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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Poverty is not just a lack of money it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
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Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
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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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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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If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.
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Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent
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