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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
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I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
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A reader has to be concerned only with the end result unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
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The genius must have his freedom and his independence.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
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It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
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Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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