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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA 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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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?
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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