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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

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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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Fear
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Thomas Friedman
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. – Thomas Friedman

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Health
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. – Mason Cooley

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History

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre

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History

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in womens history. – Antonia Fraser

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History

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Sides are being divided now. Its very obvious. So if youre on the other side of the fence, youre suddenly anti-American. Its breeding fear of being on the wrong side. – Sam Shepard

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I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Comte de Mirabeau

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