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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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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy…
— Jerry Lewis
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...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools…
— Kent Nerburn
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse…
— William Wordsworth
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Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
— Norma McCorvey
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Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
— Maria Weston Chapman
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and…
— Aurangzeb
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So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly…
— Paul Twitchell
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The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
— Swami Vivekananda
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but…
— Samuel Johnson
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