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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
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"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."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
Work

"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
Job

"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

"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."
Friendship

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

"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."
College

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

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

"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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