Thomas Friedman
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“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.” -Thomas Friedman
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“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.” -Thomas Friedman
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“The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it’s a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn’t pave the world – it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.” -Thomas Friedman
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“No matter where I go – London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore – I’m always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people’s lives better, not pull them apart.” -Thomas Friedman
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“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.” -Thomas Friedman
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“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.” -Thomas Friedman
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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” -Thomas Friedman
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“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.” -Thomas Friedman
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“We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.” -Thomas Friedman
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“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.” -Thomas Friedman
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