Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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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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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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