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Those interpersonal relationships are more important than any public measure of success.

— Alicia Menendez

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I know the enormous joy of feeling that your life has been dedicated to helping others, and also the enormous frustration of public life.

But the truth is that without my gringa mother, I might not be as proud to be Latina as I am today.

Be ambitious, be wildly ambitious, because if you constantly run up against people who are telling you ‘no,’ ambition is the only thing that motors you through.

You can’t have a private life as an elected official. It’s not a family-friendly institution.

I think what makes that extra complicated is that we're living in a moment where we're told that great leaders are authentic leaders.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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