Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
Ayn Rand
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
JESSIE HILL How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
ERIC HOFFER Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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ANTHONY BURGESS Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after...
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SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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ELLEN KEY No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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DEYTH BANGER To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
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AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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