Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
BENJAMIN BARBERInjuries too well remembered cannot heal.
BENJAMIN BARBERI divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons.
BENJAMIN BARBERTea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.
BENJAMIN BARBERThe real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.
BENJAMIN BARBERWhen they do something stupid, they don’t do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time.
BENJAMIN BARBER9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world – a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States.
BENJAMIN BARBERWhere once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
BENJAMIN BARBERWhen it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant.
BENJAMIN BARBERHaving created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
BENJAMIN BARBERI don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures…I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
BENJAMIN BARBERCivility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
BENJAMIN BARBERToxins don’t stop for customs inspections and microbes don’t carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.
BENJAMIN BARBERI divide the world into learners and non-learners.
BENJAMIN BARBERThe question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
BENJAMIN BARBERThe question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
BENJAMIN BARBERI s symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson’s and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.
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