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6920ad3
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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Ayn Rand |
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b324546
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Who is John Galt?
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philosophy
galt
taggart
objectivism
opening-lines
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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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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philosophy
galt
taggart
objectivism
ayn-rand
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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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philosophy
taggart
objectivism
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Ayn Rand |