Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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