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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

Other quotes by Thomas Friedman

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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Politics
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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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Thomas Friedman
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History
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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

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History

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

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History

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. – Peter Berger

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History

I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy

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History

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We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin

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Poetry

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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God

Every day Ive got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so youd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Peace

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because were not pure enough, good omens appear. – Jerry Saltz

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Art