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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

Madeleine Albright

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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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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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.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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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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