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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
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Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
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Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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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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Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
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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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Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
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The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.
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A good novel is an indivisible sum every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
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A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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Man's character is the product of his premises.
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Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
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