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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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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Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
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The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.
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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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