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I 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 Barber

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
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Forgiveness Heal Injury Well
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
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Dropouts Jail Men School
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
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Failure Learner Question Success
I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
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Divide Learners World
Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it’s in the Arab Spring, whether it’s in Iraq or whether it’s right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.
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Freedom Mean Security Spring
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology.
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Icons Rocks Style Template
Civility 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.
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Imagination Life Tolerance
When 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.
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Again Next Something Time Working
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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Condition Democracy Libertarian
9/11 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.
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Country Heart Powerful
When 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.
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Flurocarbon Leak Rain Simple Trade Zone
Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.
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Coke Drinker Improbable Prospects Remembered Sale Tea
Where 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.
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Life Profitability Students Taught
Toxins 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.
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Custom Free Inspection Loosened Passport Trade
I 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.
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Inspirational Life Strong
The 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.
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Interdependence Jobs Real War
I 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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Commerce Country Expansion Global Market Motorbike Transportation
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
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Asks Learners Nonlearner Success
I 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.
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Little People Stupid

I 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.

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