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Idea Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
- I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked…
- A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of…
- And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy…
- Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at…
- Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
- No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
- Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted;…
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
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