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"The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart."

"Man can only use money to buy man-made goods."

"You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality."

"Not everything that is seen is visible."

"When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time."

"No one escape death!"

"He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker."

"I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life."

"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."

"The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people. And so, for the first time, they could see him as he was: a man totally innocent of fear."

"I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever."

"And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I."

"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."

"Love is the expression of one's 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."
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