Robert Peate Quotes

#1. There's nothing I love more than seeing liberals fight each other.

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#2. It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other except by each other. The irony of this cannot be overstated.

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#3. They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again.

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#4. Stories are Life's instruction manuals.

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#5. I think we need to be beholden to each other.

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#6. What doesn't kill me makes me story material.

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#7. You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren't willing to trust other human beings.

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#8. Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will be clear. Then your reader will say, 'Yes, I get it.

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#9. To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else's need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence.

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#10. I have acquired you, and now I will determine your value to me.

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#11. The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

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#12. I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost ... Where I differ with her is that I think we can and should help ourselves and others at the same time as a conscious goal.

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#13. The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.

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#14. But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn't understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it.

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