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"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
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"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself."

"I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian."

"I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all."

"It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place."

"American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual."

"Workers of the world unite???? How'bout.... Staunch individualists disperse!!!"

"You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected."

"A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."

"The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man-and he asks no other man to exist for him."

"I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice."
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"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."


"I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up."


"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England."


"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."


"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."


"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."


"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."


"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs."


"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."


"There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance."
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