Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTRepeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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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.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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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.
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