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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (519)

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Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
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Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values the bureaucrat's tool is fear.
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A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
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The moral is the chosen, not the forced the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
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It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
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If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.
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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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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
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Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
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It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
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The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
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A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
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Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.
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