I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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