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- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who…
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the…
- I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for…
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man…
- Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here…
- Never ask people about your work.
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the…
- And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot…
- I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even…
- Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
- The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
- When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
- Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
- Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your…
- People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or…
- I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live…
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