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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The sava

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. – Ayn Rand

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. – Ayn Rand

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand

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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I dont know one who wouldnt fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. – George Jean Nathan

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Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. – David Hilbert

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