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It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.

Condoleezza Rice

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational Life Obligation Opportunity Worth
People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I’m not that complicated. I’m pretty straightforward. And I’m not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.
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Action Complication Fact Myself People Reflection
History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
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Day Different History News
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
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Consistency Imagination Life Production Race Reaction Yourself
You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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Circumstance Control Reaction Response 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
I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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Country Effective Myself Power Principle Thinking
When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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Determination Myself Willing Wrong Yourself
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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Affect Change Knowledge Past Present Yourself
We need a common enemy to unite us.
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Enemy Ourselves Unity
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.
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Desire Obligation People Reality Share
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
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Education Hard Work Yourself
America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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Important Leadership Place Powerful World
I’ve never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it’s important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.
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Balance Enjoyment Hard Work Important Life Myself Play Work
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
Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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Call Defeat Greatness Human Moral Time
Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Business Employee Goodness Leadership Manager Organization
Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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Hard Time Hard Work Inspirational Struggle Victory
If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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Creativity Job People Work Yourself
So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand.
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Teaching Thinking Understand Vulnerable Way
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
You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.
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Direction People Strong Value Yourself
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
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
When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran’s nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.
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Activity Answer Effort Involve Question Repeat Security
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
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it’s about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
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