When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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