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Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.
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The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
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To me the smart thing that governments in the Middle East would be doing right now is taking their oil and gas fountain - and the smartest ones are to some degree - and making sure they're investing in their people to unlock their potential - men and women.
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In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
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I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
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If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
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There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
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If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
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Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
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Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
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Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.
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I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
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I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or how long will it last. You are always going to want to have diversity of supply. I think the Middle East will remain a region of competition, of global competition, fighting for a long time.
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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
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Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.
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Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
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America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.
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What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.
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Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
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