Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

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Do not ever say that the desire to ""do good"" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man

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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

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I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

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