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James Fallows
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 2
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
James Mackenzie Fallows
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I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.
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The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
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Up or out greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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Every previous era looks innocent.
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I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.
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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
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The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
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There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.
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The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.
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The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.
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Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
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It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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