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