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""The question: 'What is the purpose of life?' smuggles in the wrong answer. The question should be: 'What is the purpose of my life?' There is no such thing as 'THE purpose of life', because life is an end in itself. Life is the purpose of life. And nature has given us a very good way of knowing whether we are spending our lives property or not---namely, whether we are happy or not."" — Nov 02, 2018 11:20AM
""The question: 'What is the purpose of life?' smuggles in the wrong answer. The question should be: 'What is the purpose of my life?' There is no such thing as 'THE purpose of life', because life is an end in itself. Life is the purpose of life. And nature has given us a very good way of knowing whether we are spending our lives property or not---namely, whether we are happy or not."" — Nov 02, 2018 11:20AM
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
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