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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 Albright

Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
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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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics
First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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Ideas Myself Thinking
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.
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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry
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
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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Death Growth Mindset
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
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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Force Future Nation
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
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
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics

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