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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a…
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft…
— John Donne
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs…
— William Faulkner
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"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
— Ayn Rand
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
— Edward Abbey
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
— Gautama Buddha
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God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
— Jacques Rigaut
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is…
— John Ruskin
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There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously,…
— Marie Dressler
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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one…
— Margaret Mead
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
— Yeardley Smith
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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
— Hesiod
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