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Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
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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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.
Ayn Rand
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
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Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.
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The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
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Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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You love only those who deserve it.
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Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
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Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
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When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
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Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
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The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.
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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
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Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.
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And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
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Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
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