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"Nobody will live your life for you."

"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."

"In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right."

"We are always - always- in choice."

"Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values, and thoughtful people know deep down that any love relationship at all means the loss of all three. You can say, 'I want someone who will accept me just as I am,' but in your heart of hearts you know that you are not perfect, that there are plenty of things about you that need to be changed, and that anyone who gets to know you up close and personal will want to change them."

"Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly."

"Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!"

"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
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"The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power."

"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."

"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."

"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."

"Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth."
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