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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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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
Job
"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."
Education
"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."
Friendship
"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
Economy
"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
Life
"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
College
"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
Creativity
"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."
Health
"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
Choice
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