I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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