Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life."
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Famine
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Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere."
Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine."
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