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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

Madeleine Albright

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
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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Democracy Freedom Magic Security
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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Hell Help Important Myself Place Thinking Woman Woman Empowerment
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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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
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
A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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Children Dealing Help Perspective
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Ourselves Purpose
Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics

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