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Most American men are repressors.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
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What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
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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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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
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An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
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Capitalism and altruism are incompatible they are philosophical opposites they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.
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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.
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What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
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That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
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A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.
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I don’t approve of religion.
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Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver
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The attack on selfishness is an attack on man's self-esteem to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
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