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I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

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
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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