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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline read more
Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood read more
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.
Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
