"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical……" — Ayn Rand
"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth."
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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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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we…
— Thandie Newton
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh,…
— Dennis Potter
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence…
— J I Packer
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The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman…
— Cat Stevens
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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction,…
— Lawrence Lessig
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Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.
— David Maister
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
— Chinweizu Ibekwe
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The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can…
— Brian Cox
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a…
— Freeman Dyson
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit…
— Alain de Botton
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge…
— Ian Mcewan
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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we…
— Alain de Botton
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