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I am the captain of my soul.
 
In order to make an error, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.
 
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease.
 
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
 
Grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
 
Good example is half a sermon.
 
We are in the world as words are in a book. Each generation is like a line, a phrase.
 
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
 
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
 
You are not made to live as beasts but to follow virtue and knowledge
 
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security.
 
The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.
 
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
 
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
 
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
 
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
 
Life is a trap you can escape only by throwing yourself into it.
 
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
 
The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
 
What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.
 
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