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.
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.
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Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.
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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
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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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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
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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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