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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.

Madeleine Albright

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
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
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
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
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Force Time Voice
A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Career Himself Vote
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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
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
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
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
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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Hell Help Important Myself Place Thinking Woman Woman Empowerment

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