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...Opinion without a rational process.

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Charity must be voluntary.

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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kno...more

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It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to s...more

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...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man w...more

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The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hos...more

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Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

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A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; ...more

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But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, i...more

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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so in...more

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And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of pe...more

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do ...more

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No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alternative is that state of living d...more