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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

~Ayn Rand

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Building Integrity Just Like Man Seldom

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Aspect Code Culture Ethics Every Needs New Rational Rebirth Western Western Culture

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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Body Exist His Just Keep Man Means Property Reality Results Right Rights Think Translate Which Without Work

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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.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Any Becomes Breaking Crack Crime Criminals Down Enough Government Impossible Laws Live Makes Many Men Only Power Them Things Well Without

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Animals Become Behavior Believing Civilized Control Crop Domestic He His Justified Learning Learns Man May Own Plants Understand Well

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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Arrive Confess Contradiction Error Maintain Mind Oneself Reality Realm Thinking

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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?

~Ayn Rand

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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.

~Ayn Rand

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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

~Ayn Rand

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: February 2nd, 1905

Died: March 6th, 1982

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