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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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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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"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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"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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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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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."
Economy

"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

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