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  1. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    When we got hit with 9/11, it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to summon the nation to sacrifice, to address some of its pressing fiscal, energy, science, and education shortfalls – all the things that we had let slide. But our president did not summon us to sacrifice. He summoned us to go shopping.
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  2. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.
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  3. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.
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  4. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire"
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  5. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    … "Education is a process, not a place." Education can and must go on everywhere all the time-in schools, offices, at home, online, in the classroom, over your iPod…
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  6. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings too many foreigners and foreign cultural mores into America, might align themselves with unions from the left wing of the Democratic Party, who don't like globalization for the way it facilitates the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs. They might be called the Wall Party...
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  7. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
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  8. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.
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  9. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
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  10. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.
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  11. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    One thing that tells me a company is in trouble is when they tell me how good they were in the past. Same with countries. You don't want to forget your identity. I am glad that you were great in the fourteenth century, but that was then and this is now. When memories exceed dreams, the end is near. The hallmark of a truly successful organization is the willingness to abandon what made it successful and start fresh." In societies that have more memories than dreams, too many people are spending too many days looking backward. They see dignity, affirmation, and self-worth not by mining the present but by chewing on the past. And even that is usually not a real past but an imagined and adorned past. Indeed, such societies focus all their imagination on making that imagined past even more beautiful than it ever was, and then they cling to it…, rather than imagining a better future and acting on that.
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  12. Thomas L. Friedman _ The World Is Flat: A Brief

    Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.
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