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Function Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated…
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
- One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “proveâ€) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible…
- Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
- Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter…
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function…
- From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one…
- The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the…
- Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had…
- You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of…
- The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal…
- I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is…
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- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
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- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh