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  1. Ayn Rand _ The Romantic Manifesto

    The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show-to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.
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  2. Ayn Rand _ Anthem

    What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?
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  3. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    I do not wish to work in a world that regards me as a slave.
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  4. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.
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  5. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
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  6. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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  7. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    At every step of her rise, she did the work long before she was granted the title. It was like advancing through empty rooms. Nobody opposed her, yet nobody approved of her progress.
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  8. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values.
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  9. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking-that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action-that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise-that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality-that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind-that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness.
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  10. Ayn Rand _ The Virtue of Selfishness

    Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a "compromise.
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  11. Ayn Rand _ Philosophy: Who Needs It

    There are no defenders of man's mind-in the world's greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle-between men guided by their feelings and men guided by their reflexes.
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  12. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion-when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors-when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you-when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
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