Quote by Thomas Friedman
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history,

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

Other quotes by Thomas Friedman

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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car
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My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. – Thomas Friedman

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Home
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Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, its a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesnt pave the world – it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. – Thomas Friedman

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relationship
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer

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History
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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History

The Thames is liquid history. – John Burns

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History

The Marine Corps is the Navys police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalins. – Harry S. Truman

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History

Random Quotes

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the 70s. – Jet Li

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Future

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. – Red Auerbach

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Confidence

Giving is the business of the rich. – Johann von Goethe

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Generosity

I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we dont take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health. – Sherri Shepherd

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Health