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  1. Amartya Sen _ A Wish a Day for a Week

    So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.
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  2. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.
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  3. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at Santiniketan had many progressive features. The emphasis here was on self-motivation rather than on discipline, and on fostering intellectual curiosity rather than competitive excellence.
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  4. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53
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  5. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    The Vedas may be full of hymns and religious invocations, but they also tell stories, speculate about the world and – true to the argumentative propensity already in view – ask difficult questions. A basic doubt concerns the very creation of the world: did someone make it, was it a spontaneous emergence, and is there a God who knows what really happened? As is discussed in Essay 1, the Rigveda goes on to express radical doubts on these issues: 'Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? … perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not – the one who looks down on it, in the highest heaven, only he knows – or perhaps he does not know.' These doubts from the second millennium BCE would recur again and again in India's long argumentative history, along with a great many other questions about epistemology and ethics {as is discussed in Essay 1}. They survive side by side with intense religious beliefs and deeply respectful faith and devotion.
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  6. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    there are two principal approaches to secularism, focusing respectively on {1} neutrality between different religions, and {2} prohibition of religious associations in state activities.
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  7. Amartya Sen _ The Idea of Justice

    إن أسباب التطرف ليست دينية بل سياسية.
    book-quoteدينسياسة

  8. Amartya Sen _ The Idea of Justice

    الأشخاص العقائديون جدًا يميلون إلى أنواع معينة من التفكير، قد تكون فجة جدًا، دعماً لعقائدهم.
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  9. Amartya Sen _ The Idea of Justice

    التعصب تجاه معتقدات وديانات الآخرين لا يساعد على توليد الثقة في سماحة معتقد ودين المرء نفسه.
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  10. Amartya Sen _ فكرة العدالة

    يمكن أن تنبثق من الناس متنوعي التجارب والمشارب نثاشات عقلانية متضادة، لكن هذه تأتي كذلك من مجتمع بعينه ، أو من وجهة النظر هذه من الشخص نفسه .
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  11. Amartya Sen _ The Argumentative Indian:

    Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.
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  12. Amartya Sen _ The Idea of Justice

    أن يكون المرء أذكى قد يساعده ذلك على فهم ليس فقط مصلحته الشخصية، بل كيف يمكن أن تتأثر حيوات الآخرين تأثراً شديداً بأفعاله.
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