"I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve."
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"One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines."
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"In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer."
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"... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self."
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"Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction."
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"There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident."
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"[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships."
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"Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on."
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"The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO."
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"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"
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"You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed."
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"Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now."
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"If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!"
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"There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level."
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"It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement."
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"It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment."
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"The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life."
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"Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it."
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"One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness."
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"As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation."
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