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“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent?” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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