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Ayn Rand notes the distant prairies and rivers slipping past, a feeling of detachment that colors her view of people. She argues that inflation comes from government‑added money, not from private actions, and that people who value mirrors and self‑reflection over productive work are immoral.

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Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted

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Never ask people about your work.

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That time and those people are upon you!

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When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

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“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

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She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

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You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;…

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It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

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Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

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There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to…

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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

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People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.…

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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether…

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“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light…

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Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're…

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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.

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But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it…

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There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to…

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Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to…

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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with…

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I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was…

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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those…

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People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort…

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There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the…

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In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that…

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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such…

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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply…

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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

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I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know…

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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people…

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The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through…

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We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do…

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There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,…

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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

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People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did…

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What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they…

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When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure…

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Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces,…

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You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they…

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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray…

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.