"I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers."
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"Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot."
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"Its very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms."
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"It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family."
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"In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have."
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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
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"There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want."
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"An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world."
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"Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly."
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"We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world."
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"I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known."
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"In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level."
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"You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?"
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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"If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action."
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"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
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"There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway."
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"Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience."
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