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I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?
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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
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Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.
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Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
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The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.
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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?
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Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.
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The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
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Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
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Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
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If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.
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I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
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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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Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
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I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
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