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

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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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The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. – Thomas Friedman

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Its in the history books, the Holocaust. Its just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. – Gene Simmons

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I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. Thats the whole point. The gloaming has begun. Were in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. – Thom Yorke

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes

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I never work just to work. Its some combination of laziness and self-respect. – Harold Ramis

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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. – Flip Wilson

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When I told my doctor I couldnt afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. – Henny Youngman

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