"I do not think that tragedy is our……" — Ayn Rand
"I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
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