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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Madeleine Albright

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Compassionate Human Oneself World
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Development Myself Quite Silence Time Voice Women Empowerment
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself

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