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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.

Madeleine Albright

The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
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
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
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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Ideas Myself Thinking
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
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
To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself

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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