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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.

Madeleine Albright

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
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
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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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
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 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
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
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Choice Deep Religion Yourself
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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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
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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Character Reputation Yourself
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
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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Democracy Government
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Career Himself Vote
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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 do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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.
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Children Dealing Help Perspective
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
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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Development Myself Quite Silence Time Voice
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Attitude Instagram Captions Life Philosophy
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.
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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World

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