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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

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’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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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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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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Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.
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I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
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To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.
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The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.
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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
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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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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
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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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The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
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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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