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At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powere..
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The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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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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Thomas L. Friedman |
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One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in r..
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Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone. For that you must be part of, and rooted in, an olive grove. This truth was once beautifully conveyed by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his interpretation of a scene from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude: Marquez tells of a village where people were afflicted with a strange plague of forgetfulness, a ki..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you have a middle class." I think this is a very useful insight. The existence of large, stable middle classes around the world is crucial to geopolitical stability, but middle class is a state of mind, not a state of income. That's why a majority of Americans always describe themselves as "middle class," even tho..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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No matter what your profession - doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant - if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.
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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 L. Friedman |
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Some would ask what country am I from? We ara 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 the country next to Pakistan.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence...
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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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Thomas L. Friedman |
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So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of my family, was my high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. She pounded the fundamentals of journalism into her students -- not simply how to write a lead or accurately transcribe a quote but, more important, how to comport yourself in a professional way. She was nearing sixty at the time I had her as my teac..
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When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start," argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global businesses on ethics and leadership. "You start to reflect, you start to rethink your assumptions, you start to reimagine what is possible and, most importantly, you start to reconnect with"
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The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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No one has expressed what is needed better than Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of the London-based al-Arabiya news channel. One of the best-known and most respected Arab journalists working today, he wrote the following, in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (September 6, 2004), after a series of violent incidents involving Muslim extremist groups from Chechnya to Saudi Arabia to Iraq: "Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We ..
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No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do...
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No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we're done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Girls, when I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, 'Tom, finish your dinner--people in China and India are starving.' My advice to you is: Girls, finish your homework--people in China and India are starving for your jobs." And in a flat world, they can have them, because in a flat world there is no such thing as an American job. There is just a job, and in more cases than ever before it will go to the best, smartest, most productiv..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away.
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If you want to solve a big problem, you need to go from taking credit, to sharing credit, to multiplying credit. The systems that all work, multiply credit. Multiplying credit is just another way of making everyone in the system feel ownership. And the byproduct is both resilience and propulsion.
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God always forgives. Man often forgives. Nature never forgives. --
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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To learn how to learn, you have to love learning--or you have to at least enjoy it--because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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One afternoon in the fall of 2015, while I was writing this book, I was driving in my car and listening to SiriusXM Radio. On the folk music station the Coffee House, a song came on with a verse that directly spoke to me--so much so that I pulled off the road as soon as I could and wrote down the lyrics and the singer's name. The song was called "The Eye," and it's written by the country-folk singer Brandi Carlile and her bandmate Tim Hanse..
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The same thing, notes Brynjolfsson, happened 120 years ago, in the Second Industrial Revolution, when electrification--the supernova of its day--was introduced. Old factories did not just have to be electrified to achieve the productivity boosts; they had to be redesigned, along with all business processes. It took thirty years for one generation of managers and workers to retire and for a new generation to emerge to get the full productivi..
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Chung ta quen nhin dan chu hoa nhu mot su kien - giong nhu hinh anh buc tuong Berlin sup do - nhung thuc ra dan chu hoa la ca mot qua trinh.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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to make old things work better, to make new things possible, and to do old things in fundamentally new ways. For instance, the invention of the Uber taxi service did all three: it didn't just create a new competitive taxi fleet; it created a fundamentally new and better way to summon a taxi, to gather data on riders' needs and desires, to pay for a taxi, and to rate the behavior of the driver and the passenger. These sorts of transformation..
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The job of the politician in America, whether at the local, state, or national level, should be, in good part, to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to do if they want to thrive within it.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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And to start with I would focus on five of these killer apps that have immediate application to governing today: (1) the ability to adapt when confronted by strangers with superior economic and military might without being hobbled by humiliation; (2) the ability to embrace diversity; (3) the ability to assume ownership over the future and one's own problems; (4) the ability to get the balance right between the federal and the local--that is..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Intel engineers did a rough calculation of what would happen had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle improved at the same rate as microchips did under Moore's law. These are the numbers: Today, that Beetle would be able to go about three hundred thousand miles per hour. It would get two million miles per gallon of gas, and it would cost four cents! Intel engineers also estimated that if automobile fuel efficiency improved at the same rate as Moore's l..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Culture is nested in context, not genes.
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All of these are signs "that our societal structures are failing to keep pace with the rate of change," he said. Everything feels like it's in constant catch-up mode. What to do? We certainly don't want to slow down technological progress or abandon regulation. The only adequate response, said Teller, "is that we try to increase our society's ability to adapt." That is the only way to release us from the society-wide anxiety around tech. "W..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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The three largest forces on the planet--technology, globalization, and climate change--are all accelerating at once.
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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How you got your college education mattered most." And two experiences stood out from the poll of more than one million American workers, students, educators, and employers: Successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors and took a real interest in their aspirations, and they had an internship related to what they were learning in school. The most engaged employees, said Busteed, consistently attributed their success in the w..
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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today's workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. "They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn't know what sport they are going to enter,"
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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As the world speeds up, stocks of knowledge depreciate at a faster rate.
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Thomas L. Friedman |