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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The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect. – Thomas Friedman

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respect
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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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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

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I dont think consensus-building politics is what Im meant to be doing. – Christopher Hitchens

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You know, Im just not going to get into American politics. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. – Youssou NDour

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This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. – Robert Delaunay

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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, its a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch

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