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[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
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I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
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Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
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