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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.

Condoleezza Rice

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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Dangerous Health Humble Yourself
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
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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Democracy Difference People Power Reality Share Violence Way
You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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Compassionate Integrity Work Yourself
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
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
My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
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Average Greatness Myself Poor Respect Teacher
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
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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Education Goodness Problem Reality Yourself
Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Business Employee Goodness Leadership Manager Organization
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
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
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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Help Human Institution People Perfection
Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
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Better Company Leadership Recognition Simplicity 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
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
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
We can’t rely – or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.
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Build Country Father Human Imperfection Institution Personality Understand
Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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Hard Time Hard Work Inspirational Struggle Victory
I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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Believe Form Time Yourself
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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Bad Failure Planning Policy Work Yourself
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
We’re in a new world. We’re in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn’t act.
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Act Marriage Possible Sorry Technology Terrorism World
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
Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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Call Defeat Greatness Human Moral Time
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
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down…by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
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Definition Determination Force Possible Prejudice Success

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