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Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
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Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.
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That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.
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Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
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Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
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One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.
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