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" I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever. "

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" The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad. "

" There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you. "

" We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male. "

" The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love. "

" Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47. "

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" I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling. "

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" Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience. "