Ayn Rand Quotes About Famous Women
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I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
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It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.
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Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live
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Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
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To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.
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You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
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Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
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When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
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Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
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