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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
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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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It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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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 think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
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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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[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.
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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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Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.
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I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.
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There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.
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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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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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Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.
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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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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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I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.
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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
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