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- That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
- I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
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