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It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.
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Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
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Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.
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The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
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Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.
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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
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If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.
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Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
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I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.
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Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
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Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
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An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
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There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.
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