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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.

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
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
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
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
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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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Name Oppression Rule
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
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 answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
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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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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

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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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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