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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

Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics
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 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
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
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
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 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
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
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

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