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Ayn Rand

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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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We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.
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I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.
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Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.
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The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
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Never ask people about your work.
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There are no evil thoughts except one the refusal to think.
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That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter if I am right, he will learn if I am wrong, I will one of us will win, but both will profit.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
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But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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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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