History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou 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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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.
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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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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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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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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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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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