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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

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

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

— Thomas Friedman

#basically #conservation #drive #ethic #license

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

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#climate #doing #free #get #kind

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

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

#competitive #country #dominates #economic #economic security