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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.
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Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
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It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
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If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
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Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you? He answered, Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
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Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.
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It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.
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Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.
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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
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Dominique as Gail looks at her ... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.
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