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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.

Madeleine Albright

Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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Ideas Myself Thinking
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Choice Deep Religion Yourself
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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Children Dealing Help Perspective
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry

Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.

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