About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
~ Ayn Rand Quotes
from The Fountainhead
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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury Quotes
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend lose more; but he who loses courage loses all.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
~ Doug Larson Quotes
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
~ Victor Hugo Quotes
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
from Life of Samuel Johnson
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~ Mark Twain Quotes
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