Quote by Thomas Friedman
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No matter where I go – London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore – Im always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make peoples lives better, not pull them apart. – Thomas Friedman

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Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. – Thomas Friedman

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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History
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I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. – Thomas Friedman

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Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. – Rip Torn

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone

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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. – Jeff Goodell

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. – Winston Churchill

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Have the courage to act instead of react. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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