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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Madeleine Albright

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
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
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.
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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Name Oppression Rule
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
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Determination Idea People
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
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
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst

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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