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> [“When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn’t afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad’s boss, and my aunt and uncle, all pitched in. Morrie was the driving force behind it all, though.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-my-dad-died-suddenly-my-widowed-mom-couldn-t-afford-my-college/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

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> [“never, ever say to someone in need: “Call me if you need help.” If you want to help someone, just do it. Our”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/never-ever-say-to-someone-in-need-call-me-if-you-need-help-if-you/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

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## More by Thomas L. Friedman

> [“When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn’t afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad’s boss, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-my-dad-died-suddenly-my-widowed-mom-couldn-t-afford-my-college/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/these-alliances-began-with-the-most-basic-blood-association-the/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/social-conservatives-from-the-right-wing-of-the-republican-party-who/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-muslim-radicals-and-fundamentalists-look-at-the-west-they-see/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/men-grant-and-withdraw-their-love-according-to-their-whims-but-fear/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that “it” that was being sustained? I needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/but-the-question-that-tugged-at-me-and-i-asked-over-and-over-was-what/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can do, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/it-is-fun-to-be-around-really-really-creative-makers-in-the-second/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/today-more-than-ever-the-traditional-boundaries-between-politics/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“Second, in the desert there was no outside mediator or government to enforce laws or to adjudicate disputes in a neutral way between tribes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/second-in-the-desert-there-was-no-outside-mediator-or-government-to/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“NAZ was founded in 2008 in Minneapolis, and is modeled on Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone. It uses a holistic web of family coaches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/naz-was-founded-in-2008-in-minneapolis-and-is-modeled-on-geoffrey/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/i-got-to-see-with-my-own-eyes-the-boundaries-of-men-s-compassion/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/while-their-parents-knew-a-different-life-and-would-never-really-feel/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“The resulting article—an almost hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre—was published across four full pages of The New York Times on September 26, 1982; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/the-resulting-article-an-almost-hour-by-hour-reconstruction-of-the/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/linkedin-was-barely-known-and-most-people-thought-it-was-a-prison/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

> [“Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/goods-are-traded-but-services-are-consumed-and-produced-in-the-same/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

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