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“Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.” quote by Gore Vidal — Download Open image

“Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.”

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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

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It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to…

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“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.”

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

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