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Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.

~George Packer

Topics: Addressing Appointments Body Campaign Campaign Finance Care Change Climate Climate Change Creation Executive Finance Food Greatest Immigration Incapable Job Job Creation Joined Judicial Labor Law List Management Matters Mine Pilot Safety Scores Security Training Transportation Veterans Wildfire World

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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

~George Packer

Topics: Almost American Became Crumble Dissolve Great Great American Institutions Just Last Last Year Like Normal Sand Watch Year

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The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.

~George Packer

Topics: Advances Age Also Been Created Creation Disappointment Enough Him Information Information Age Jobs Made Manufacturing Out Physical Physical World Produced Productivity Revolutionary Rich Substitute Turns Virtual World Worlds

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The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

~George Packer

Topics: Around Business Change Change The World Conversations Freely Investing Phrase Plans Silicon Silicon Valley Talk Tests Tossed Valley World

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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

~George Packer

Topics: Appeals Become He Ideology Making Motherland Mystic Opposite Putin Religion Stands Type Universal War

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Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

~George Packer

Topics: Books Brought Capitalism Century Changes Conflicts Demon Even Face Filled Hero Human Human Face Imagination Industrial Movies News Past Popular Public Putting Social Songs Stories Victim Whether While Worker

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The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

~George Packer

Topics: Aristocratic Based Being Between Compromise Early Founders House Houses Leaders More Odd People Popular Representing Republic Senate Single Sovereignty Those Two Upper Wanted Which Who

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It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.

~George Packer

Topics: Area Bay Bay Area Because Being Class Cost Designers Engineers Francisco Housing Jobs Left Managers Neighborhoods Old Out People Pushed Real San San Francisco Smart Smart People Very Working Working Class

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Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.

~George Packer

Topics: Banner Millions Rally Uncertainty

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Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.

~George Packer

Topics: Al Allegiance Answers Ask Bar Bona Condition Could Entry Establish Even Jihad Long Lowering Membership Pledge Requiring Youtube Qaeda

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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