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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
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Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
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If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
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Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
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There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.
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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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What do I think of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.
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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
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A rational process is a moral process.
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I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.
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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO
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Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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Any group or collective, large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
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Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
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