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A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. --Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997
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history
globalization
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Tom Standage |
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The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., the Pampas, el Gran Chaco, the Danubian Basin, Equatorial Africa, Hirther Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwannaland, Lhasas, and the villages of darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be . At any rate it out to cut down travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will (I opine) go all the faster. (leter 53)
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globalisation
globalization
catholicism
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine.
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inspirational
globalization
difference
ideas
democracy
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Roger Zelazny |
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But an oft-heard complaint, as companies spread their tentacles around the world and compete on a global playing field, is that globalization is merely a new form of imperialism.
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corporations
globalization
imperialism
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Tom Standage |
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I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills... Take control of your world.
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globalization
marxism
capitalism
revolution
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Warren Ellis |
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...products of soulless machines and relentless globalization...
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soulless
globalization
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