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Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?
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The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.
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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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I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
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It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
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All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.
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I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
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Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.
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There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.
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A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.
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