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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

Madeleine Albright

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
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
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
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
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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Beginning Human Issue
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
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
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
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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
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

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