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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
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Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.
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Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.
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An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
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Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
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The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.
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It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.
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Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart
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Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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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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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.
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A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.
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Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras whenever it fell, so did mankind.
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Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
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If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as social gains, if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as selfish greed.
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