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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)

Madeleine Albright

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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
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
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
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Democracy Freedom Magic Security
To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
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
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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Compassionate Human Oneself World
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
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Election Experience Search Word
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
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
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

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