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A vision without resources is an hallucination.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
Columnist
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.
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