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Ayn Rand has 856 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property…
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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 that 'the…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of…
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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 of beauty.
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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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 distinction as…
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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 gains a…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a…
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the…
— John Stuart Mill
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Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving…
— Anna Sewell
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the…
— Werner Herzog
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character…
— Frances Conroy
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The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta…
— Ayrton Senna
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His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
— Publilius Syrus
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It is [every woman’s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own…
— Lillie Langtry
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The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber…
— Renee Fleming
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Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
— Billy Gibbons
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