"The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it."

-- Ayn Rand

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“Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.”
“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”
“No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality”
“When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.”
“My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.”
“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.”

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