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"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
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"India's strength lies in her villages. Our aim is to bridge the differences between rural and urban India. We want our villages to have all the facilities that are there in the cities."
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"The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits."
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"White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues."
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"In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development."
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"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."
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"Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper."
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"For the development of India. the development of eastern India is essential"
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
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"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development."
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"The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process."
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"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
Awareness
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
Justice
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
Family
"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
Development
"I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are."
Economy
"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
Education
"There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists."
Influence
"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
Education
"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."
Family
"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
Work
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