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

Madeleine Albright

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
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
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
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
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
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
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Death Growth Mindset
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

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