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• The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for us, Asia is a big market, Europe is a big market. You are going to have hundreds of millions of consumers there, from just a standard market point of view, from a very narrow American point of view.

  Thomas Friedman

  Views, Europe, America

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• All one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian or Lebanese, or Syrian, or Egyptian doctors, who are either first generation or themselves immigrants, to know, and I'm a big believer - brains are distributed evenly around the world. What aren't distributed evenly are opportunities, stable government, educational institutions, etc.

  Thomas Friedman

  Educational, Opportunity, Doctors

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• My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of the group that is doing well in this system, you owe it to yourself and to others to look out for them and make sure you are always building a ladder for others to join you.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mother, Law, Groups

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

  Thomas Friedman

  Giving Up, Moving, Uprising

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• There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

  Thomas Friedman

  Political, Energy, Climate

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it's that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, School, Thinking

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Egypt

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

  Thomas Friedman

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, America

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• In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

  Thomas Friedman

  World, Eras, Tiny

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

  Thomas Friedman

  Historical, Answers, Debate

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.102, Macmillan

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• If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

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  Life, Success, Visits You

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Thinking, Acting

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• Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

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  Golf, Should Have, Rating

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• Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

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  Sports, Needs, Temples

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• I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, Kids, Groups

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

  Thomas Friedman

  Amazon, Ethics, Conservation

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

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  Technology, Feet, Balance

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• You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

  Thomas Friedman

  Green, Revolution, Disappear

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• There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Phones, Differences

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• Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Believe, Home

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• The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a fossil fuel, and because it's still a fossil fuel, it still emits carbon.

  Thomas Friedman

  Alternatives, Coal, Fuel

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