#hi

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. ↗

— Hans Selye

#condemnation #dread #much #thirst

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#her #i #just #know #see

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#both #economics #exceeds #far #fields

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#communities #give #hindu #human #human race

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

— Amartya Sen

#choice #collective #delhi #i #left

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts. ↗

— Hun Sen

#construction #efforts #everything #far #future

There must be more to life than having everything. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#having #life #more #must #than

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional