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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."

"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

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

"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!"

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

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

"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."

"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."

"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."

"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."

"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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