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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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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All…
— Richard Branson
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the…
— Scott Mandia
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Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they…
— Unknown Author
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
— Aaron Levie
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No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a…
— Alain de Botton
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
— Pablo Picasso
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of…
— Mark Twain
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When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all…
— Georges Bernanos
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
— Maud Adams
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