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No man can use his brain to think for another.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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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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Statism needs war a free country does not. Statism survives by looting a free country survives by producing.
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