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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?

Madeleine Albright

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hell Help Place Support Woman
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Best Word
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 ALBRIGHT

Act Faith Life Myself Success
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Emotional Hate Policy
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
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Democracy History Oppression Politics
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Mindset Myself Phone Remember
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Beginning Human Issue
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Time Voice
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Greatness Life Myself
Peace is not a spectator sport.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

One Liner Peace
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Determination Idea People

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