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As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. ↗

— Dan Rather

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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