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Quotes by "Amartya Sen"

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.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: award, opportunity, health, me
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: live, go, home, work
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: also, started, prevention, work
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: should, over, some, teacher
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.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: human, race, way, people
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
— Amartya Sen
Tags: left, delhi, welfare, choice
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