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For every one feels to what purpose he can use his own powers. Before the horns of a calf appear and sprout from his forehead, he butts with them when angry, and pushes passionately.

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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.

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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

For when every judgement is the act of hym that judgeth, it behoveth that every man performe hys worke and purpose, not by any forayne or straunge power or facultie, but by his owne proper power, and strength.

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When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs

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Thus every one pursue their own delights.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

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