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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Madeleine Albright

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.
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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
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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Character Reputation Yourself
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
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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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
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 conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
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
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
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
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
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

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