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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

The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Responsibility Right
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
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Name Oppression Rule
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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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
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
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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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
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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Democracy Freedom Magic Security
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Principle Respect Right
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Beginning Human Issue
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Leadership Oppression Promise
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hide Leadership Leaving
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Mess One Liner Reality World

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