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Since there is no such entity ...

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

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Creation comes before distribu...

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

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The government was set to prot...

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

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That something happened to you...

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant....

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Civilization is the progress t...

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

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I can't compete and when I do,...

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

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If you tell an ugly woman that...

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

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Consider the reasons which mak...

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

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Even if smog were a risk to hu...

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

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Statism needs war; a free coun...

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

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This is the age othe common ma...

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

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Love is an expression and asse...

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love....

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Mr. Ward, what is it that the ...

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

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Have you felt it too? Have you...

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

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She thought how strange it wou...

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

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The leaves streamed down, trem...

The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground m

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She thought: at this moment, t...

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

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She knew that she could not ha...

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

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Is it advisable to spread out ...

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

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Art is a selective re-creation...

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

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