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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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Literary Critic
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Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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Man is a being with free will therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
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Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
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Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
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Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
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Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'
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the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.
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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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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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The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him) it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.
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You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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