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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
Director For Multilateral Affairs
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
Every
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Boss
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.
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Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.
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'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
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I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
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Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
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First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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