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I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#breakthrough #come #could #egypt #firmly

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#college #daughter #grade #high #high school

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#fool #makes #man #travel #wise

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#believe #brutalized #capitalism #capitalist #deal

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #i am #just #mean #minnesota

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#authentic #been #care #critic #energy

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot. ↗

— Max Frisch

#least #person #police #something #sorts

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

#began #being #came #companies #era

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever