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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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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
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Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
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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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The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
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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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Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
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But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
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