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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Madeleine Albright

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman
Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
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
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
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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Determination Idea People
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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
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 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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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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