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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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aa964e4
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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Who is John Galt?
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galt
objectivism
opening-lines
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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68d4985
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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73f2947
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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2045ef1
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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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543e505
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
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ayn-rand
galt
objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |
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8992607
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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
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objectivism
philosophy
taggart
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Ayn Rand |