"Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical"

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Source : "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.

Amartya Sen

#Growth Quotes #Development Quotes #Investment Quotes

“When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.”
“A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.”
“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”
“we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”
“One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.”
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
“I'm actually really shy.”

Source : "The Man with No Bones" by Amanda Dobbins, www.gq.com. October 24, 2011.
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”

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