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Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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You are an indivisible entity of matter and consciousness. Renounce your consciousness and you become a brute. Renounce your body and you become a fake. Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.
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The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude.
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So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
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That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
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To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.
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I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Ayn Rand
Born:
February 2, 1905
Died:
March 6, 1982
(aged 77)
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