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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
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Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.
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If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with
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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Truth is the recognition of reality reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
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When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?
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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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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
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By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault
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Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
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Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
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To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight
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Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
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The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
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The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
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Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
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