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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThis was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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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 greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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.
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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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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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