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Practical Quotes by Ayn Rand
- I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but…
- Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
- Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and…
- 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…
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- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell
- Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.