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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Ayn Rand

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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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He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.
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Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
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And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
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She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.
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Dominique as Gail looks at her ... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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