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| 022cf73 | They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling." "But it's true...I am, in the sense they mean--only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?" "What did they mean about you?" "Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .'to feel' is to go against reaso.. | cold dagny-taggart emotions feel reason unemotional | Ayn Rand | |
| dce172d | The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 32c0646 | There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). | Ayn Rand | ||
| ba15769 | He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0293777 | Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding i.. | democracy follower leader living masses master mob-rule slave society | Ayn Rand | |
| 1602e7b | Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right." | Ayn Rand | ||
| bd3ac5a | I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. | building engineering love passion profession | Ayn Rand | |
| c0c1a0d | The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority. | psychological racism | Ayn Rand | |
| 787aca2 | You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. | dagny-taggart love | Ayn Rand | |
| 4ab6f3f | You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon-- | idea love memory unattainable | Ayn Rand | |
| 9973f1d | She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted! | inspirational | Ayn Rand | |
| 1296961 | The basic trouble with the modern world ... is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic problems crushing the world today, we must clarify our mental confusion. We must acquire a philosophical perspective. In essence, freedom and compulsion are one. Let me give you a simple illustration. Traffic lights restrain your freedom to cross a street whenever you wish. But this restraint gives you the.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b550802 | It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." | S1C5" | Ayn Rand | ||
| de436fc | But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cf2d7b7 | Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. | racism reason | Ayn Rand | |
| e5e4bcd | Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b74a63d | It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it"." | Anne Tyler | ||
| 3c05889 | And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 8286308 | No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 09928be | Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' | Anne Tyler | ||
| a941da6 | Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are. | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| 5fcad17 | Colin, I hate to fulfill the Theorem, but I don't think we should be involved romantically. The problem is that I secretly in love with Hassan. I can't help myself. I hold your bony shoulder blades in my hands and think of his fleshy back. I kiss your stomach and I think of his awe-inspiring gut. I like you, Colin, I really do. But-I'm sorry. It's just not going to work. I hope we can still be friends. Sincerely, Lindsey Lee Wells P.. | John Green | ||
| ef1454f | The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off. | divorce love | Anne Tyler | |
| 34bf7d3 | I am the sound of rain on the roof. I also happen to be the shooting star, the evening paper blowing down an alley, and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table. I am also the moon in the trees and the blind woman's tea cup. But don't worry, I am not the bread and the knife. You are still the bread and the knife. You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and--somehow--the wine. | Billy Collins | ||
| b2ff47c | But earlier this week on a wooded path, I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir were the true geniuses, the ones who had figured out how to fly, how to be both beautiful and brutal, and how to mate for life. | Billy Collins | ||
| 54f616a | But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. | Billy Collins | ||
| 2164fb3 | I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. | poetry | Billy Collins | |
| 0042cd9 | As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our p.. | democracy humor politics supreme-court voting | Jon Stewart | |
| d75c926 | If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 4dd0245 | The Humbug whistled gaily at his work, for he was never as happy as when he had a job which required no thinking at all. After what seemed like days, he had dug a hole scarcely large enough for his thumb. Tock shuffled steadily back and forth with the dropper in his teeth, but the full well was still almost as full as when he began, and Milo's new pile of sand was hardly a pile at all. "How very strange," said Milo, without stopping for a m.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 9781072 | But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5" | Brian Greene | ||
| 3b4bc3a | I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. | writing | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 42019c3 | But time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 114e010 | Don't you think you're a little old now to be quoting ?' I ask, raising an eyebrow at him. 'You read ,' Will protests. 'Everyone reads ,' I exclaim. 'It's an institution. Besides, it's not really a kids book, it's a metaphor for the world at large. It's almost philosophical in its way. | mel will | Jennifer Gilby Roberts | |
| 459622c | Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 28c18f0 | Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful. Samuel wrote to Joe, sayings, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach. But I would ask you with all my understanding heart no.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2d82061 | I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down. | heroic knights ups-and-downs | John Steinbeck | |
| a9ff871 | Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 496b679 | And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. | violence | John Steinbeck | |
| 2922e5f | Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b3caeb6 | I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3bdb76e | The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4db3a6c | At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3fef276 | All we got is the family unbroke. | John Steinbeck |