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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
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But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.
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...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
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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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If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
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Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
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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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Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
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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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Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
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It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.
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Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver
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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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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
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She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.
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