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Amartya Sen

"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."

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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."

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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."

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"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."

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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

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"You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things."

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"Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively."

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"Times goes by your choice, if you make your days wonderful the days will go fast... and interesting and memorable.... If you do it in boring way they will go like watching a film which doesn't have something to make you get interested without games, crimes, horror, thriller, romance and every single other genre which you think without it the film is awful... but not only genre, but genres!"

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"There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision."

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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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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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"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 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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"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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