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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."
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"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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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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"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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"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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"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."
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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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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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"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
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