"No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's"

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Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.586, Macmillan

Thomas Friedman

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“The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.”

Source : Karen White (2012). “After the Rain”, p.10, Penguin
“From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.”
“The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.”
“I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional."Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.”

Source : "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.
“I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.”
“The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you canâ€™t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.”
“If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.”
“I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.”

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