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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 seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
— Mark Twain
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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling…
— Medard Boss
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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
— Clay Shirky
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is…
— Ayn Rand
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A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting…
— Noam Chomsky
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach…
— Margaret Mead
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Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness?
— Louis Mackey
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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to…
— Simone Weil
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