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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
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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.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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