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Madeleine Albright

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
If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Government Herself Home
I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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Hell Help Important Myself Place Thinking Woman Woman Empowerment
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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Name Oppression Rule
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
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
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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