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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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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."

"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."

"I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

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