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Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
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Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.
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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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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different but only if we start doing things differently.
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
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America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.
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Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
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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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American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.
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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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Arnold Schwarzenegger said it best: Your son is sick. Ninety-eight doctors give you one diagnosis, two doctors give you another. Who are you going to go with? Well, why would it be the conservative position to go with the two? That's not conservative, that's crazy.
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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.
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Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.
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What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
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Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.
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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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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
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Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
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We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
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