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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Another Another Man Ask Life Live Love Man Mine My Life Never Nor Sake Swear Will

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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Ask Dream Earth Graves Greatness Heaven Here Now Our Ours Should Us Waiting Whether Yourself

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Abstraction Attribute Everything Function Highest His Man Mind Necessity Reasoning Religious Skyscraper Smallest Wheel

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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Against Dangerous Disarmed Force Government Holds Legal Legally Man Monopoly Most Physical Potentially Rights Threat Use Victims

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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Accept Guilt Unearned Worst

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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achieved Another Character Earn Emotional Expression Greatest He Joy Love Love Is Man Moral Paid Person Price Qualities Receives Reward Values Virtues You Your

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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Business Disastrous Government Hands Help Just Keeping National Off Only Persecution Prosperity Service Way

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Conformist Cowardice Fashionable Level Lower Than

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achieve Achieving Action Desire Goal Possibility Which Worth

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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achieving Avoiding Death Equivalent Life

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: February 2nd, 1905

Died: March 6th, 1982

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