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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achieve Beat Creative Desire Man Motivated Others

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achievement Happiness Integrity Life Loyalty Mindless Moral Only Pain Proof Purpose Result Since Values Your

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Going Me Question Stop Who

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Best Climbed Ladder Opportunity Stepping Success Success Is

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

~Ayn Rand

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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).

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Away Earth Function Individual Individual Rights Majority Minorities Minority Oppression Political Precisely Protect Public Right Rights Smallest Subject Vote

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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Able First Love Love You Must Say You I Love I Love You

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Men Only Seek Those Truth Truth Is Who

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

~Ayn Rand

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Civilization Existence Free His Laws Man Men Privacy Process Progress Public Ruled Savage Setting Society Toward Tribe Whole

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: February 2nd, 1905

Died: March 6th, 1982

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