I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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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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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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