It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything … - Amartya Sen

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I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

Amartya Sen

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

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