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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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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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his...

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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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