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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice."
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"One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!"
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"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones."
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"You made a choice-a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing."
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"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."
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"Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life."
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"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."
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"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."
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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."
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"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."
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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."
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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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"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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"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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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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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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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
Choice

"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
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