"The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose."

-- Ayn Rand

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“It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.”
“To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.”
“Sean Ã“g Ã³ HailpÃn.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.”
“I want to be one of the best players in the game.”
“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.”
“In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”
“I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.”

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