Quote by Ayn Rand
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well

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. – Ayn Rand

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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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Ayn Rand
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Love is the expression of ones 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. – Ayn Rand

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Love
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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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Government
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Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. – Edward Young

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Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. – Suzanne Fields

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In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. – Koichi Tanaka

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell

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I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. – Christina Aguilera

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