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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Madeleine Albright

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Ability Different Leadership Understand View
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Character Reputation Yourself
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
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
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
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
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
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
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
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

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

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