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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.

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