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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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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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A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
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We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.
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I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
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Live a life as a monument to your soul.
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Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
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There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
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For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
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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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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
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A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
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