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Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.
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Everyone needs to get together and say: Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world.
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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
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The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for us, Asia is a big market, Europe is a big market. You are going to have hundreds of millions of consumers there, from just a standard market point of view, from a very narrow American point of view.
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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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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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I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say Oh, like I said, China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere. I don't see that happening.
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I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
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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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No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
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Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.
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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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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.
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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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Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.
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When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.
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The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
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Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.
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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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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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