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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."

"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."

"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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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."

"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."

"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."

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

"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."

"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."

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