#1 score: 1.560

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.
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#2 score: 1.177

#3 score: 1.147

#4 score: 0.992

#5 score: 0.991

#6 score: 0.991

#7 score: 0.991

#8 score: 0.991

#9 score: 0.991

#10 score: 0.991

#11 score: 0.991

#12 score: 0.991

#13 score: 0.931

A Russian official came up to a factory worker and said, "If you drank a shot of vodka, could you still work?" The worker said, "I think I could." The official said, "If you drank two shots of vodka, could you work?" The worker said, "I think I could." Then the Russian official said, "If you drank five shots of vodka, could you work?" And the worker said, "Well, I'm here, aren't I?"
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#14 score: 0.923

#15 score: 0.851

#16 score: 0.820

The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man -- and he asks no other man to exist for him. This is the only form of brotherhood and mutual respect possible between men.
category: literature (modern) | comment

#17 score: 0.813

"Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?" he asked. The novice thought for a moment. "I will design a new editing program," he said, "a program that will replace all these others." Suddenly the master struck the novice on the side of his head. "What did you do that for?" exclaimed the surprised novice. "I have no wish to learn another editing program," said the master. And suddenly the novice was enlightened.
category: computers | comment

#18 score: 0.802

The choice is not self-sacrifice or domination. The choice is independence or dependence. The code of the creator or the code of the second-hander. This is the basic issue. It rests upon the alternative of life or death. The code of the creator is built on the needs of a reasoning mind which allows man to survive. The code of the second-hander is built on the needs of a mind incapable of survival. All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.
category: literature (modern) | comment

#19 score: 0.802

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on this earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. Man has no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons -- a process of thought. >From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.
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#20 score: 0.802

It had to be said: the world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrifice.
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