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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

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Who is John Galt?

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the res...more

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Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step...more

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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewar...more

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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my val...more

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So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there...more

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The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of exis...more

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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man'...more

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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser stan...more

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People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reas...more

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the her...more

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Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of hi...more

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...more