"To know one's own desires, their meaning and……" — Ayn Rand
"To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand has 838 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cost Quotes
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
— Franklin P. Adams
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will…
— John Adams
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering…
— Bob Beauprez
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other…
— Ben Bernanke
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Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
— Jeff Bezos
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be…
— Jeff Bezos
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