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"He did not want to be great but to be
thought great"
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"He knows himself to be mediocre but he is
great in the eyes of others"
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"A truly selfish man cannot be affected by
the approval of others. He doesn't need it."
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"Base self-respect on personal standards of
personal achievement"
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"Its simple to
seek substitutes for competence - such easy substitutes : love, charm,
kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence."
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"Our greatest
moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched"
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"A
self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters"
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"If one does not
respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect respect for
others."
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"Every system of
ethics that preached sacrifice grew into a world power and ruled millions of
men. Of course, you must dress it up"
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"Yet the test
should be so simple - just listen to any prophet and if you hear him speak
of sacrifice - run faster than from plague"
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"Where there is
sacrifice, there is someone collecting sacrificial offerings"
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"The man who
speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. and intends to be
the master"
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"Can you rule a
thinking man? We don't want any thinking man."
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"Unite people so
that you have a single throat to slit."
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"An agreement
reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many
individual thoughts"
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"No man can use
his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for
another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be
shared or transferred."
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"Men learn from
one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can
give another the capacity to think."
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"To a creator,
all relations with men are secondary"
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"Man was forced
to accept masochism as his ideal under the threat that sadism was his only
alternative"
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"The egotist in
the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices himself. He is the man who
stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function
through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter.
Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires,
not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man -
and he asks no man to exist for him. This is the only form of brotherhood
and mutual respect between men."
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"Every creative
job is achieved under the guidance of a single individual thought."
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"But men were
taught to regard second-handlers - tyrants, emperors, dictators - as
exponents of egotism. By this fraud they were made to destroy the ego,
themselves and others. The purpose of the fraud was to destroy the
creators."
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"Civilization is
the process of setting man free from man."