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“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
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“Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”
― The Fountainhead
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”
― The Fountainhead

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
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