"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic……" — Ayn Rand
"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions"
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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