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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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I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

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Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

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He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There w...more

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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

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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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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learn...more

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

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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unna...more

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Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-makin...more

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The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man’s consciousness in action—t...more

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A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

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It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.