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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (519)

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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
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The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.
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You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
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It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious
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The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.
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That which exists possesses identity he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
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The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.
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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
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To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
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Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.
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The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
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A good novel is an indivisible sum every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
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The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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