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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.

Madeleine Albright

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Principle Respect Right
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Compassionate Human Oneself World
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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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
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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Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
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
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
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
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth

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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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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