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*All the believers agreed
to hold everything in common: they began to sell their property and
possessions and distribute to everyone according to his need.
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-Acts 2:44-45
NIV
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The desire to belong is partly the desire
to lose oneself.
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-Eric Hoffer
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*All the crimes of
history have always been perpetrated by the mob.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to John Temple Graves (newspaper columnist), July
5, 1936
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 1, "Arrival in America to We the Living (1926-1937)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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*The word "We" is as lime
poured over men, which sets and hardens into stone, and crushes all beneath
it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the
grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the
good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools
steal the wisdom of the sages.
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-The character Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*I mean that groups of men
are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total
nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses
to fill that nothing.
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-Kent Lansing, a character in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Two, "Ellsworth M. Toohey", Ch. 10
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*People who are afraid to
sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose.
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-James Taggart, a villain in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part One, "Non-Contradiction", Ch. III, "The Top and the Bottom"
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