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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
Essayist
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
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We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
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Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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There can be no compromise on moral principles.
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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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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
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We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.
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When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
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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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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
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and he said her name to fill the space of five years.
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Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
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I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
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An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
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Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Thinking men cannot be ruled ambitious men do not stagnate.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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