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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.

Madeleine Albright

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Act Faith Life Myself Success
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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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
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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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
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
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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Oneself Ourselves Purpose
When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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