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“The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.”
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“It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.”
― Marx for Beginners
― Marx for Beginners
“Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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