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• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also…
• we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have…
• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for…
• I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…
• Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that…
• Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of…
• Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
• The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit…

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