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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

Madeleine Albright

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Election Experience Search Word
How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Compassionate Human Oneself World
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Beginning Human Issue
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Choice Deep Religion Yourself
Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Death Growth Mindset
The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue

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