Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead (1943)

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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

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It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

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In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

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The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him: the reasoning mind.

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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

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