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8403a20
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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unhappiness
wealth
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Ayn Rand |
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55c0449
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.
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rationalization
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Ayn Rand |
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fc2edc3
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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is cr..
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morality
work
life
love
productivity
intellect
loyalty
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Ayn Rand |
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0809204
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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love
inspirational
atlas-shrugged
objectivism
achievement
admiration
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Ayn Rand |
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76d5618
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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting you..
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inspirational
atlas-shrugged
second-handers
objectivism
achievement
mediocrity
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Ayn Rand |
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883d5fa
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The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if ev..
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political
individualism
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Ayn Rand |
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f81274d
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What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Ayn Rand |
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9e7465e
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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting you..
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inspirational
atlas-shrugged
second-handers
objectivism
mediocrity
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Ayn Rand |
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f71aa5d
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But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark)
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Ayn Rand |
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c11a2a6
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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self
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Ayn Rand |
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ce0b6d5
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...
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Ayn Rand |
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4bfb543
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received -- hatred. The great creators -- the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors -- stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every ..
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objectivism
vision
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Ayn Rand |
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e0e6422
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Ayn Rand |
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3f87879
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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responsibility
reason
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Ayn Rand |
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090a602
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Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
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Ayn Rand |
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422ff1a
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In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
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Ayn Rand |
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5e3ec72
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One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
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Ayn Rand |
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0447022
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Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
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Ayn Rand |
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b504c8b
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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education
tyranny
power
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Ayn Rand |
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6d37d22
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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture
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inspirational
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Ayn Rand |
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3aaeb10
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - total passion for the total height - you're incapable of anyt..
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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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5877150
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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not..
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Ayn Rand |
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a99d889
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I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
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Ayn Rand |
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61f3a21
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Never ask people about your work.
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Ayn Rand |
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76db2df
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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Ayn Rand |
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5de9ba0
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But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
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Ayn Rand |
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f54793a
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He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
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Ayn Rand |
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f21289c
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What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
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Ayn Rand |
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f86b895
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She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
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Ayn Rand |
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04c4fb9
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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Ayn Rand |
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8e004f3
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Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.
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progress
happiness
fulfillment
movement
innovation
growth
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Ayn Rand |
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6528219
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It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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Ayn Rand |
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997c772
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault"
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Ayn Rand |
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4b3008c
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I am. I think. I will.
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Ayn Rand |
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caa00bd
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Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
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Ayn Rand |
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94cb13b
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It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
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Ayn Rand |
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47fe022
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
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work
life
pursuit-of-happiness
rewards
intellect
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Ayn Rand |
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6adf439
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Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched"."
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Ayn Rand |
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996ca58
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She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but t..
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Ayn Rand |
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fe35f42
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I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there h..
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romance-novels
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Ayn Rand |
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8d493ac
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Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
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Ayn Rand |
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c1ae412
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Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you."
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Ayn Rand |
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3c9ea2c
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The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Ayn Rand |