I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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