Quote by Ayn Rand
Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good moti

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. – Ayn Rand

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Just as man cant exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ones rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. – Ayn Rand

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the lepers bell of an approaching looter. – Ayn Rand

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. – Ayn Rand

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz

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He that does good to another does good also to himself. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. – Sivananda

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. – Dave Barry

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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I cant really understand why it doesnt obsess everyone – I think it does really, Im just a little more out about it. – J. K. Rowling

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I feel I do my best work when its all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and Im not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I dont entirely trust what Im doing. – Guy Pearce

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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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