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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
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 dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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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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