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

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

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.

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

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

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or

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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    Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths

    God has no religion.

    God has no religion.

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