"Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat."

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Source : Amartya Sen (1981). “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation”, p.1, Oxford University Press

Amartya Sen

#People Quotes #Enough Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness,”
“I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.”
“The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.”

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“I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.”
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
“Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.”
“If you canâ€™t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. Iâ€™d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.”
“This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.”

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