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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.

Madeleine Albright

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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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
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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Election Experience Search Word
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
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
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
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
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
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Mindset Myself Phone Remember

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