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 ALBRIGHTFalsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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