When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
From Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
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