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"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
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"Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations, to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry."
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"India will develop when our villages prosper. By improving the economy of villages we can power our country's growth."
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"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."
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"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."
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"I don't know how - it is a question of process."
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"Develop your prayer language, increase your prayer coverage."
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"Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission."
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"Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before."
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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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"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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"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."
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"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."
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"If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?"
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"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
Justice

"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

"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."
Wisdom

"My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth."
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"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

"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
Work

"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
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