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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGo 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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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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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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