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"I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."	Ayn Rand
"Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach."	Ayn Rand
"To achieve, you need thought…. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."	Ayn Rand
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."	Helen Keller
"Death … is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."	Helen Keller
"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution."	Robert Zend
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."	Rebecca West
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."	Rebecca West
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."	Rebecca West
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."	Rebecca West
"All of us who grew up before the war are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. The young are at home here. Their eyes have always seen satellites in the sky. They have never known a world in which war did not mean annihilation."	Margaret Mead
"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."	Margaret Mead
"To cherish the life of the world."	Margaret Mead
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."	George Orwell
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Albert Camus
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures-be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."	Albert Camus
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