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There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
Academic
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Development
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Values
Passes
Important
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Men
Psychological
Motivation
Confidence
Judgment
Estimate
Value
Decisive

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The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.
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For I to become we and yet remain I, is one of the great challenges of marriage.
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It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.
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... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
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I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
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Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
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Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.
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No one is coming to save you.
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Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.
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Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.
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