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- It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
- An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
- To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
- Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in…
- A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
- If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
- In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms…
- 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…
- The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares…
- My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic…
- 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…
- Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines…
- It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than…
- I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my…
- People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they…
- Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done…
- I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
- There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
- What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine