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Atlas Shrugged [1957]

The Fountainhead [1943]

Anthem [1938]

We the Living [1936]
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Marilyn Monroe: Through Your Most Grievous Fault, by Ayn Rand (5 August 1962 [Miscellaneous]
 

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Ms. Rand`s novels have a remarkable propensity to polarize their readers; some strongly agreeing with her polemics, others strongly disagreeing.
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    Name Ayn Rand
    Date of Birth February 21905
    Birthplace St. Petersburg, Russia
    Star Sign Aquarius
    Died March 61982 (Aged 77)
    Location of Death New York, New York, USA
    Cause of Death lung cancer
    Religion Atheist
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    Occupation Writer
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    Claim to Fame Atlas Shrugged, "Objectivism"
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  • The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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  • Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    (thinkexist.com)
  • The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren`t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    (thinkexist.com)
  • We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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  • Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
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  • So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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  • Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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  • "Mediocrity" doesn`t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters
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  • Wealth is the product of man`s capacity to think.
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  • People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don`t sit looking at it- walk.
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  • To say `I love you` one must first be able to say the `I.`
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  • Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts
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  • 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 of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
    (thinkexist.com)
  • Love is the expression of one`s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
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  • Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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  • There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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  • A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
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  • Get the hell out of my way!
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  • Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one`s values.
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  • The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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  • Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
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  • Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
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  • Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
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  • That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call `free will` is your mind`s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
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  • Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
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  • Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
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  • Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
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  • I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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  • It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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  • The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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  • I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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  • The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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