I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.


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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
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Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
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The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ...
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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac...
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...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by ot...
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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...
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Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i...
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t...
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...
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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...
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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...
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People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
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She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
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I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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