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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Madeleine Albright

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
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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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
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
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
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.
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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
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
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
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
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
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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Ideas Myself Thinking
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself

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