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The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be, because you'll spend less time railing against life's unfairness and feeling aggrieved and entitled, and more time figuring out how to maximize your assets, and your talents and how to deal with things that you're not very good at.

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Feelings, Talent, Very Good

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The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

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Father, Party, Crow

"Transcript of Condi Rice's Convention Speech". ABC NEWS, abcnews.go.com.

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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

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Humble, Ethnicity, Essence

"Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan at the Republican convention" by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

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Girl, Powerful, Moving

Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014

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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

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Might, Able, Circumstances

Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

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Leader, World, Accepting

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Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.

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Opportunity, Leader, Generations

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The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

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Thinking, Race, Important

Source: www.glamour.com

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If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.

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Stupid, Thinking, People

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

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Integrity, Leader, Firsts

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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

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Self Esteem, Achievement, Black

Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

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Adventure, Loving Life, Thinking

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In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

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Hard Work, America, Doe

Text: Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. August 01, 2000.

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Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

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Basketball, Finding Yourself, Talent

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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

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Thinking, Principles, United States

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

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Educational, Healthy, Given

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Every life is capable of greatness.

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Greatness, Life Is, Capable

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Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you're going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.

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Bad Day, Successful, Being Successful

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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

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Real, Race, Tire

Condoleezza Rice (2010). “Extraordinary, Ordinary People”, p.157, Three Rivers Press

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Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

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Opportunity, Greatness, Life Is

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You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

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Differences, Making A Difference, World

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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

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Real, Looks, Zips

"Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.

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You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.

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Believe, Mind, Principles

Source: www.msnbc.com

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I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.

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Identity, Problem, Respectful

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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"I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you realize that there's not much there. And, of course, it has the problem, too, of being on that border with Pakistan in basically an ungoverned region that has given the terrorists a staging ground. So it's a very difficult place. But I do believe that the mission there can succeed if success is defined as helping the Afghans to prevent the Taliban from being an existential threat to the Afghan government."

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Born: November 14, 1954
Occupation: Former United States Secretary of State
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