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

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Act Faith Life Myself Success
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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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Determination Idea People
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
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Government Herself Home
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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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
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
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
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
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
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
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race

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