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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
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
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The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
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Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
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Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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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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If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.
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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.
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Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.
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When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
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You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
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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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