"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals……" — Ayn Rand
"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."
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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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More Adjusting Quotes
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E F Schumacher
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People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in…
— Alice Bailey
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl…
— Kim Edwards
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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a…
— Napoleon Hill
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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to…
— Bruce Lee
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come…
— Willie Mays
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Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with…
— Ilka Chase
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Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
— Brian Houston
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Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age.…
— Joel Garreau
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