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• 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),…
• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations…
• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also…
• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
• Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that…
• A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
• Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself…
• The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or…
• If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social…
• The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

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