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

-- Amartya Sen

#Choices Quotes #Welfare Quotes #Social Quotes

“Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.”
“Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.”
“The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?”

Source : Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.9, Routledge
“the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.”

Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
“The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.”
“There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.”
“When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.”
“I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.”

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