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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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. – Ayn Rand

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Happiness
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to mens stupidity, but your talent to their reason. – Ayn Rand

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Men
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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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo

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I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Harry Dean Stanton

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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. – Voltaire

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Believe deep down in your heart that youre destined to do great things. – Joe Paterno

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I took the fear of marriage from my parents relationship, because I didnt want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didnt carry it on into their own marriages. – John Mahoney

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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity… – Heinrich Heine (d.1856), “Ideas: Book Le Grand,” 1826, translated from German by

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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session. – Martin Van Buren

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