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Sometimes sweet reason doesn’t get the job done. You can wear yourself out sweetly explaining some things. People don’t listen. Why should they? They already know everything they want to know. With these types you have to be forceful.
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Ayn Rand
“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Alexandre Dumas
“People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

David McCullough
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
David McCullough

Ayn Rand
“I am, therefore I'll think.”
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ”
Ayn Rand

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