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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
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Believe Black Female Model Modeling Myself Role Special Wait Yourself
I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.
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Achievement Benefit Children Enough Fortunate Hope Resource Time
Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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Hard Mindset Open Passion Search Yourself
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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Better Brilliant Class Love Myself Open World
I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.
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Believe Country Myself People Thinking Tolerance World
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.
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Children Election Family Mom Myself Parents Vote Win
Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
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Attention Hard Work History Judgement Rare Security Yourself
This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
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Democracy Embrace People Style Work
We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.
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Engagement Negotiation Terrorism War Wrong
As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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Ability Country Greatness Honor Love People Potential Reach Respect Secretary Strength
Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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Day Head Judgement Media News Present
Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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Call Defeat Greatness Human Moral Time
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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Agreement Country Deal International Thinking World
I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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Funny Goodness Laughter Myself
Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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Achievement Confidence Fake Praise Standard Worth
But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
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Open Ourselves Place Society Territory Threat Truth Vulnerable

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