James Fallows Quotes - Page 2

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• No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

  James Fallows

  Differences, Choices, Needs

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• I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

  James Fallows

  Boston, Phoenix, People

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• I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

  James Fallows

  Two, Google, Afar

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• According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

  James Fallows

  Technology, Assessment, Oil

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• Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

  James Fallows

  Military, World, Assumption

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• It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

  James Fallows

  Real, War, Years

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• Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

  James Fallows

  Country, Thinking, Rich Countries

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• Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

  James Fallows

  Infrastructure

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• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Vietnam

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  James Fallows

  Patents, Reform, Giants

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• I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

  James Fallows

  Sarcastic, Needs, Faces

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• I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

  James Fallows

  Media, Google, Levels

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• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

  James Fallows

  Air, Safety, Water

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• Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

  James Fallows

  Country, Real, Moving

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• There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

  James Fallows

  Environmental, Problem, Surprise

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• In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

  James Fallows

  Transition, World, Way

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• Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Emphasis, Bureaucracy

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• The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

  James Fallows

  War, Iraq, Wealth

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.

  James Fallows

  People, Trump, Cases

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

  James Fallows

  Thinking, Knowing, Japan

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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