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- God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
- Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his…
- As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only…
- I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give…
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
- Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
- Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is…
- I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to…
- She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to…
- I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
- Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
- Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
- But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,…
- I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
- When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull…
- I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to…
- 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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