All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

Clifford Cohen
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing...
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing...
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing...
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All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense. This is a quote from the book "The Battle for Israel" by best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman. In his book, Friedman describes how there are two kinds of people: those who believe that the world is round and those who think it is flat.

Those who believe it is round see events as a series of causes and effects. They ask: why did this happen? And they try to imagine and devise strategies and tactics for preventing or stopping those events from recurring in the future. On the other hand, those who think the world is flat see events as a series of coincidences.

They ask: why did this happen? And they shrug their shoulders and say: what does it matter? (This quote comes from an article by Thomas L. Friedman).

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