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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

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Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

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