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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

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It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

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I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

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Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

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Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

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Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth.

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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

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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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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

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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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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

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God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.

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To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.

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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

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Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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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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Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

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Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

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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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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

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I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

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Paris is always a good idea.

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I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

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Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

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If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

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Water is life, and clean water means health.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know , but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‘UNICEF.’

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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If I get married, I want to be very married.

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I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

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People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

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I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

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Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

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It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’

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The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

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I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

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I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Actor Audrey Hepburn
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I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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