I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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