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- The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
- Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
- If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his…
- Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
- I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
- These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I…
- I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
- What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that…
- The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his…
- But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,…
- You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been…
- That time and those people are upon you!
- ""Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If…
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