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Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Ayn Rand

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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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Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!
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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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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
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You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?
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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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The genius must have his freedom and his independence.
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It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.
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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else
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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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I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
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If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
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