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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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