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“The belief that heaven is above us was made even more ridiculous by the discovery of the fact that the world is not flat but round.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”

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Author:Gary McCord

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”

“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.”

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Book:The Proper Study of Mankind

Source: The Proper Study of Mankind

“conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.”

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Book:The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

Source: The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

“Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).”

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Author:David Livermore

“Canada's the best country in the world.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.”

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Author:Gavin Schmidt

“Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.”

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Author:Stuart Chase

“If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.”

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Author:Robert Crandall

“It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.”

“I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.”

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Author:Nandan Nilekani

“Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.”

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Book:Voltaire's Bastards

Source: Voltaire's Bastards