"Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake."

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Source : George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

George Friedman

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“Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.”
“The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.”
“The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.”
“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”
“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
“America is an unusually religious nation.”

Source : "America Has a Prayer" by Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.
“I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.”

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