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  1. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

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

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

    Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
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  10. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.
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  11. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values."
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  12. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
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