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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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Fountainhead
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If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as social gains, if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as selfish greed.
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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.
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A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
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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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The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
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Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.
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That which exists possesses identity he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
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You were not born to be a second-hander. Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in The Fountainhead
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault
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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.
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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
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