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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

Madeleine Albright

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
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
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
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy 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
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Act Faith Life Myself Success
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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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk 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
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Name Oppression Rule
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
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
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
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
If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Government Herself Home
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

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