How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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