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181 " months. Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years. "
― Fareed Zakaria , Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
182 " the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the "
― Fareed Zakaria , The Post-American World
183 " the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the end of 2004 to its lowest level since the late 1950s. "
184 " even the staunchly conservative National Review published an essay that concluded, “What is clear is that in at least one regard American mobility is exceptional . . . where we stand out is in our limited upward mobility from the bottom. "
185 " Harvard’s polymath professor Steven Pinker argues “that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence. "
186 " warriors and statesmen who survived believed that they had a duty to create a world that did not lapse back into nihilistic competition. "
187 " For the twentieth century, the great political debate was about the size and role of government in the economy—the quantity of government. But what seems to have mattered most in this crisis was the quality of government. "
188 " That raises the most serious threat to the liberal international order—which is not China’s expansionism but America’s abdication. The architect of this system is rapidly losing interest in its own creation. "
189 " After centuries of bemoaning the fact that the young are too rebellious and disrespectful, the problem today, it appears, is that they are not rebellious and disrespectful enough. They aren’t willing to challenge conventional wisdom, neither the liberal pieties that offended Allan Bloom nor the conservative ones that gall Deresiewicz. After having been pilloried for trying to destroy the bourgeois order in the 1960s and 1970s, the youth are now scorned for being too bourgeois. "
― Fareed Zakaria , In Defense of a Liberal Education
190 " What, then, is the best course for the real experts? To help the public understand how their field works, in particular how science works. "
191 " The issue is not the issue,” meaning the real conflict is not over any particular matter or dispute. “The issue is power. "
192 " generics produced in India, which itself gets two-thirds of pharmaceutical ingredients from China. "
193 " Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place. "
194 " Only 13% of people in households making over $100,000 were laid off or furloughed, compared with 39% in households making less than $40,000. "
195 " Olmsted, captured the prevailing wisdom, writing in 1870 that “air is disinfected by sunlight and foliage, "
196 " The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” That "
197 " Norman Augustine (the former Lockheed Martin CEO) stressed the importance of both scientific skills and humanistic thought: So what does business need from our educational system? One answer is that it needs more employees who excel in science and engineering. . . . But that is only the beginning; one cannot live by equations alone. The need is increasing for workers with greater foreign-language skills and an expanded knowledge of economics, history, and geography. And who wants a technology-driven economy if those who drive it are not grounded in such fields as ethics? . . . Certainly when it comes to life’s major decisions, would it not be well for the leaders and employees of our government and our nation’s firms to have knowledge of the thoughts of the world’s great philosophers and the provocative dilemmas found in the works of great authors and playwrights? I believe the answer is a resounding “yes. "
198 " King Lear, having been in power for decades, can no longer hear anything but flattery, banishing the one person—his own daughter Cordelia—who dares to speak to him truthfully. "
199 " There is a larger critique of markets, though, that goes beyond economics. Market-centric thinking has invaded every area of human life, leaving little space for other values like fairness, equality, or intrinsic value. "
200 " In the 1970s, as inflation took off and growth slowed, Western societies seemed to have fallen victim to excessive state intervention in the economy, embracing wage and price controls and other supposed remedies that only made things worse. "