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Love is our response to our highest values. (Ayn Rand)
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. View quote
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You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light. View quote
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The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. View quote
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Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have. View quote
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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. View quote
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The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values. View quote
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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. View quote
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. View quote
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Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death. View quote
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. (Ayn Rand)
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? View quote
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. View quote
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. View quote
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. View quote
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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. View quote
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She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. View quote
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. View quote
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The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing. View quote
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. View quote
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There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. (Ayn Rand)
But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment. View quote
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There can be no compromise on moral principles. View quote
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. View quote
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I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. View quote
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