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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
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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If you want to feel good, be rational.
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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It is a sin to write this.
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Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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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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Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.
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To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
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Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.
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When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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