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If jobs are important, education is important.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jobs. It makes a dramatic difference. It generates a social equity that we need.
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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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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.
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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
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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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I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
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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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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
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Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.
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Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.
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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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A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
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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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Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.
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I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
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