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Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

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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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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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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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I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.
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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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but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
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Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
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My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
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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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Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.
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A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
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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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The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
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The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
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If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter if I am right, he will learn if I am wrong, I will one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.
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