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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.

Condoleezza Rice

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
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Best Culture Education Goodness Hard Work Language Yourself
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
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
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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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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America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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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.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Policy Problem Separate Unity
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
Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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Day Head Judgement Media News Present
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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Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you’re going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.
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Differences can be a strength.
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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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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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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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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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