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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault

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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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There are no evil thoughts except one the refusal to think.
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
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Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
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Capitalism and altruism are incompatible they are philosophical opposites they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.
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By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
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I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.
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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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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
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Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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