George Friedman: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

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“If human beings can simply decide on what they want to do and then do it, then forecasting is impossible. Free will is beyond forecasting. But what is most interesting about humans is how unfree they are. It is possible for people today to have ten children, but hardly anyone does. We are deeply constrained in what we do by the time and place in which we live.”

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Źródło: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 252

“Contemporary Europe is a search for an exit from hell.”

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Źródło: The Next Decade: Where We've Been ... And Where We're Going (2010), p. 142

“Your 15 minutes are here, Friedman… I'm just saying, all your life you know useless and obscure things. And suddenly… It is a fairly strange experience.”

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Interview with Matt Bai (2003)

“No continent is as small and fragmented as Europe. Only Australia is smaller, yet Europe consists of fifty independent nations (including Turkey and the Caucasus, for reasons explained later). Crowded with nations, it is also crowded with people. Europe's population density is 72.5 people per square kilometer. The European Union's density is 112 people per square kilometer. Asia has 86 people per square kilometer. Europe is crowded and fragmented.”

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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe (2015)