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Able Quotes by Ayn Rand
- About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
- Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To…
- What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to…
- Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
- Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape…
- In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure…
- To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
- So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a…
- every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which…
- People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering…
- She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous…
- In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values…
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